![]() Numerous stage and screen adaptations include Matilda the Musical and two Willy Wonka films based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a third on the way. ![]() His books, which have sold more than 300m copies, have been translated into 68 languages. ![]() Lives of the Wives explores five literary marriages full of tempest and tumult, offering rich biographical portraits and examining the role of ambition, narcissism, misogyny, infidelity and alcoholism in relationships where imbalance seems baked in from the start.Ĭiuraru is American but excavates most of her material in Britain, selecting Dahl and actor Patricia Neal Kenneth Tynan and his American wife, Elaine Dundy Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard lesbian couple Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge and Alberto Moravia and Elsa Morante, two of Italy’s most important postwar novelists. A new book by Carmela Ciuraru, however, puts the author right back before judge and jury. Meanwhile a recent biography by Matthew Dennison, Teller of the Unexpected, seeks to rescue Dahl from the flaming torch and pitchfork-wielding mob, preferring not to dwell on his unsavoury side. ![]()
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