WEB LINKS: corporal punishment in British schools". www.corpun.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016 . Retrieved 26 May 2016. The last book published in his lifetime, Esio Trot, released in January 1990, marked a change in style for the author. Unlike other Dahl works (which often feature tyrannical adults and heroic/magical children), it is the story of an old, lonely man trying to make a connection with a woman he has loved from afar. [120] In 1994, the English language audiobook recording of the book was provided by Monty Python member Michael Palin. [121] Screenwriter Richard Curtis adapted it into a 2015 BBC television comedy film, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, featuring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench as the couple. [122]

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Dahl first attended The Cathedral School, Llandaff. At age eight, he and four of his friends were caned by the headmaster after putting a dead mouse in a jar of gobstoppers at the local sweet shop, [5] which was owned by a "mean and loathsome" old woman named Mrs Pratchett. [5] The five boys named their prank the " Great Mouse Plot of 1924". [30] Mrs Pratchett inspired Dahl's creation of the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, and a prank, this time in a water jug belonging to Trunchbull, would also appear in the book. [31] [32] Gobstoppers were a favourite sweet among British schoolboys between the two World Wars, and Dahl referred to them in his fictional Everlasting Gobstopper which was featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. [33] John Shirley (2001). "Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". LocusOnline. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022 . Retrieved 10 October 2022. Lloyd, Brian (17 November 2016). "You've been pronouncing Roald Dahl's name wrong for years". Entertainment.ie. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020 . Retrieved 11 January 2020.

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