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Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was published by Jonathan Cape . The story features Matilda Wormwood , a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull .
All versions of Matilda—the 1988 novel, the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito, the West End/Broadway stage film, and the 2022 Netflix movie musical—differ from each other in key ways.
Mathilda, or Matilda, [1] is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959. It deals with common Gothic themes of incest and suicide .
Matilda is a 1996 American fantasy comedy film co-produced and directed by Danny DeVito from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.
The message written by Matilda demands that Miss Trunchbull return Magnus' daughter's house and money to her, using Trunchbull's first name and Miss Honey's nickname to add to the believability.
Since 2011, Matilda the Musical has been playing at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End. In 2011, the musical received its West End debut (under the new title of Matilda the Musical) at London's Cambridge Theatre. The show was originally scheduled to begin previews on 18 October 2011, but because of structural and installation work at ...
1st appearance in print of Nurse Matilda, later developed into the Nurse Matilda series of books (1964-1974). Nurse Matilda was the inspiration for Nanny McPhee: Betjeman, John: A Ring of Bells: Poems 1962 London: John Murray 1963 US edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin) 1964 paperback John Murray 1964 school edition The Albemarle Library for Schools
Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896), better known as Charles Dickens Jr., was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. [1] A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine All the Year Round , and a writer of dictionaries.