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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 .
Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books.
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 Romanticism themes of incest and suicide .
Roald Dahl's classic children's book is now a movie musical on Netflix. Here are all the key differences between the original novel, the 1996 film, stage adaptation, and 2022 movie musical.
In Chapter 6 of Dahl's Matilda, the young girl hatches a plan to get back at her father for calling her a "liar" and a "cheat."Matilda knows that her father takes pride in his thick and dark locks ...
Matilda was released on August 2, 1996. It made $8.5 million at the US box office in its opening weekend, ranking in third place behind A Time to Kill and Independence Day. [16] The film grossed $33.5 million in the United States and Canada and $47 million worldwide [3] against a production budget of $36 million. [1]
The movie was based on Roald Dahl's classic book of the same name, and told the story of Matilda, a genius little girl who has special magical powers. Photo cred: Getty
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 ...