Some journalists involved in civil rights in 1964 complained (mother woke maybe?) and his publisher made the second edition free of ANY Oompa-Loompa descriptions - something I found so annoying when I first read it aged 8. The Oompa-loompas were black pygmies in the 1964 US edition which makes sense as most cocoa beans for chocolate have been grown in Africa for a century or more, and Dahl worked there in the 30s. I have always loved The Chocolate Factory (Dahl's original title). Often darly sinister, and these days called misogynist by the usual pc suspects, his short stories and the TV series TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED (which the wonderful SKY ARTS TV channel is at last repeating every weekday at 1pm), are a real treat.ĪNY collection of Roald Dahl short stories is a real treat. Roald Dahl was a master of the short story - esp for adults.
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