title: Wonderful, Wicked, and  Whizzpopping: The Stories, Characters, and Inventions of Roald Dahl
author: Roald Dahl
description: Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of<i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>,<i>Matilda</i>,<i>The BFG</i>and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No.1 storyteller. Find out more at roalddahl.com.
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  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  by Roald Dahl
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Seven stories out of this world
  
  
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  People _are_ as strange, grotesque and
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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