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MATILDA

by Roald Dahl

Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st. 1988

Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. Matilda is sensitive and brilliant. Mr and Mrs Wormwood treat her as a scab, not a daughter - a scab to be endured until the time comes to flick her away to the next county. Matilda discovers she has an extraordinary psychic power... Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 240 pages.

Wrapper is a bit edge-creased with faded spine.

ISBN: 0224025724
Stock no. 2124748

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Contents

  • Matilda is brilliant and sensitive but Mr. & Mrs. Wormwood treat her as a scab, not a daughter, Even before she is five years old, Matilda has read Dickens, Hemingway, Kipling and Steinbeck and still her parents think she is a nuisance. So she decides to get her own back. Matilda's car salesman father in his loud check suit and her platinum-haired mother are no match for her sharp genius. And when she is attacked by Miss Trunchbull, the child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary psychic power that can save her school and especially her lovely teacher, Miss Honey.

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