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2. Matilda (novel) - Wikipedia

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   In a small Buckinghamshire village forty minutes by bus away from Reading and 8 miles from Aylesbury, Matilda Wormwood is born to Mr and Mrs Wormwood. She immediately shows awesome precocity, learning to speak at age one and to read at age three and a half, perusing all the children's books in the library by the age of four and three months and moving on to longer classics such as Great ...

3. Mathilda (novella) - Wikipedia

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   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 .

4. Matilda (Normanby novel) - Wikipedia

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   Matilda is an 1825 novel by the British writer and politician Lord Normanby, originally published in two volumes. [1] It was part of the emerging, popular genre of silver fork novels that focused on the fashionable British upper classes in the later Regency era , and was his first published work.

5. The Key Differences Between Matilda Book, Movie Musical ... - AOL

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   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.

6. Matilda Wormwood - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Emma Brown - Wikipedia

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   Boylan "steeped herself in letters and writings" [3] and acknowledged the assistance of several notable Brontë scholars in her afterword to the novel. Boylan developed the story as a mystery novel, using two characters from Brontë's original chapters who work together to solve the puzzle of the eponymous girl's identity: [4] Mrs. Chalfont, a widow introduced as a narrator in the manuscript ...

8. The Secret Garden - Wikipedia

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   It continued to rank well on readers' polls for favorite stories. In 1927, it placed in the top fifteen favorite books of female Youth Companion readers, and in the 1960s, the readers of The New York Times ranked The Secret Garden as one of the best children's books. Surveys of adult readers in the 1970s and 1980s show that the novel was a ...

9. Cautionary Tales for Children - Wikipedia

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   The book contains an introduction and eleven tales, all written in rhyming couplets. "Introduction: Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book were true." "Jim: Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion." "Henry King: Who chewed bits of string, and was early cut off in Dreadful agonies."