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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl bol britský spisovateľ, známy hlavne od roku 1940 tvorbou pre deti i dospelých. K jeho najznámejším dielam patrí "Charlie a továreň na čokoládu" , "Matilda", "Čarodejnica" a "Jakub a obrovská broskyňa". Z jeho tvorby pre dospelých je asi najznámejšia kniha poviedok "Ľúbostné rošády".

Roald Dahl sa narodil 13. septembra v roku 1916 v Spojenom kráľovstve. Jeho rodičia sa tam prisťahovali z Nórska. Keď mal  4 roky, umrel jeho otec na zápal pľúc, predtým prišiel o sedemročnú sestru Astri. Jeho matka ostala na Britských ostrovoch. Bol výborným športovcom, hral za školský futbalový tím a bol aj kapitánom školského sqauhového tímu.

Po skončení školy sa stal obchodným zástupcom firmy Shell pre oblasť východnej Afriky. V roku 1939 nastúpil do Royal Air Force, kde získal hodnosť Pilot Officer. Pri havárii jeho litedla v Lýbii sa zranil, mal fraktúru lebky a dočasne oslepol. V nemocnici v Alexandrii sa zamiloval do sestričky, keď sa mu však vrátil zrak, zistil, že láska nie je slepá a uvedomil si, že bol zamilovaný len do jej hlasu. V roku 1941 sa vrátil do Británie, pretože ho bolesti hlavy  prinútili zavesiť kariéru pilota na klinec.

Roald Dahl začal písať po prevelení do Washingtonu. V roku 1953 sa v New Yorku oženil s herečkou Patriciou Nealovou, boli svoji 30 rokov a mali päť detí: Oliviu (zomrela v siedmich rokoch), Tessu, Thea, Opheliu a Lucy. Olivii neskôr venoval knihu Kamoš obor. S manželkou sa rozviedli v roku 1983, dôvodom bola o 22 rokov mladšia  Felicity d'Abreu Crosland,ktorú si po rozvode vzal.

Zomrel 23. novembra v roku 1990 na leukémiu vo svojom dome v Great Missendene, Buckinghamshire. Jeho vdova pokračovala v jeho neúnavnej charitatívnej činnosti prostredníctvom nadácie nesúcej jeho meno.

(Foto: Carl Van Vechten)

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Boy and Going Solo


Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl's extraordinary autobiography in one volume. Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding. Roald Dahl wasn't always a writer. Once he was just a schoolboy. Have you ever wondered what he was like growing up? In Boy you'll find out why he and his friends took revenge on the beastly Mrs Pratchett who ran the sweet shop. He remembers what it was like taste-testing chocolate for Cadbury's and he even reveals how his nose was nearly sliced off. Then in Going Solo you'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Roald Dahl tells his story in his own words - and it's all True. And now you can listen to all of Roald Dahl's novels for children on Roald Dahl Audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - and there are added squelchy sound effects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting Twit or Miss! and House of Twits inspired by the revolting Twits.
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9,49 €

Esio Trot


Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's number one storyteller! This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot. Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last? "A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero." (David Walliams). And now you can listen to Esio Trot (with the Giraffe and the Pelly And Me) and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - and there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! And look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting Twit or Miss! and House of Twits inspired by the revolting Twits.
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7,90 €

Going Solo NE


Phizz-whizzing new branding for the World's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl. As a young man, Roald Dahl's adventures took him from London to East Africa, until the Second World War began and he became a RAF pilot. You'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with deadly green mambas and hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Going Solo is exciting, enthralling and just like its prequel Boy - it's all True...Illustrated with photographs and original letters. And now you can listen to all of Roald Dahl's stories on audio, read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - and there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Also look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting Twit or Miss! and House of Twits inspired by the revolting Twits.
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8,50 €

A barátságos óriás


2016 augusztusában kerül a mozikba Steven Spielberg nagyszabású filmje, a világ leghíresebb mesemondójának egyik leghíresebb regényéből született A barátságos óriás. Ezzel egy időben új kiadásban jelenik meg újra a regény, amelyet korábban Szofi és HABÓ címen ismerhettek az olvasók. A Hatalmagos Azonáltal Barátságos Óriás, azaz a HABÓ nem közönséges csontkrámcsáló óriás. Ahhoz túlságosan is kedves és gyámbor. Szofi legnagyobb szerencséjére. Ha ugyanis bármelyik másik óriás rabolta volna el az éjszaka kellős közepén, hamarosan felfalta volna reggelire. Amikor Szofi megtudja, hogy az óriások Angliába loholnak, és egészben nyeldekelnek le kedves gyerkedliket, ő meg a HABÓ elhatározza, egyszer s mindenkorra véget vetnek a szörnyűséges emberevésnek! Roald Dahl kém volt, kiváló vadászpilóta, csokoládétörténész és feltaláló, továbbá a Charlie és a csokigyár, a Matilda, A barátságos óriás, valamint számos nagyszerű történet szerzője. A barátságos óriás az első kötet a Kolibri Kiadó Roald Dahl-sorozatában, amelyben új fordításban jelenik meg a Matilda, illetve a későbbiekben további népszerű Dahl-regények is. A köteteket a számos David Walliams-könyvet is illusztráló Quentin Blake rajzai gazdagítják. 
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5,61 €

Matilda


Matilda különleges lány, de a szülei sajnos komplett idióták. Az apja szélhámos, az anyja meg sötét, mint egy belső zseb. Ki nem állhatják a lányukat, azt szeretnék, ha többet tévézne, és kevesebbet olvasna. Czukor kisasszony, a tündéri tanárnő viszont hamar rájön, hogy Matilda zseni. Az iskola rettegett igazgatónője azonban mindkettőjük életét megkeseríti... Még szerencse, hogy Matilda elképesztő trükköket tartogat a tarsolyában, és nem fél megmutatni a szörnyű felnőtteknek, hogy vele jobb nem ujjat húzni! A Matilda a Kolibri Kiadó Roald Dahl-életműsorozatának második darabja, amelyet új fordításban, Totth Benedek tolmácsolásában olvashatunk. „Dorong kisasszony a tanári asztal mögött ült, és rémülten, megbűvölve meredt a pohárban vonagló gőtére. Matilda szintén a pohárra szegezte a tekintetét. És akkor lassan, nagyon lassan, valami roppant különös, egészen szokatlan érzés kerítette hatalmába. A szeme viselkedett a legfurcsábban. Mintha elektromossággal telítődött volna. Mintha egy rettenetes erő forrt, buzgott volna föl a szeme mélyéről. És közben valami egészen mást is érzett, de nem tudta megmondani, mi az. Mintha villámokat szórt volna a szeme. Igen, ez az! Szó szerint apró villámok cikáztak - egyenesen a szeméből!" 
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5,61 €

Roald Dahl Collected Stories


Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began his literary career by writing about his own experiences in the RAF during World War II but soon developed this talent in a series of short-story collections. He is perhaps even more celebrated as an author of children's books, but the best of his short stories represent a claim for him to be numbered among the most remarkable story writers of the 20th century. The present volume includes for the first time all the stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.
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25,90 €

Dahl Audio Tin CD


29 CDs, 10 brand new and updated recordings of Roald Dahl's children's titles brought to life by some of our best-loved celebrity voices: The BFG (David Walliams), The Twits (Richard Ayoade), James and the Giant Peach (Julian Rhind-Tutt),The Enormous Crocodile (Stephen Fry), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Douglas Hodge), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Douglas Hodge), Danny The Champion of The World (Peter Serafinowicz), The Witches (Miranda Richardson), Fantastic Mr Fox (Chris O'Dowd) and Matilda (Kate Winslet). R.R.P. £123.90 'Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music' - Matilda.
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23,00 €

Lacná kniha Roald Dahl: 4 book and CD set (-25%)


Box 4 titulov a audio CD: James and teh Giant Peach, The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a Matilda. James and teh Giant Peach: James Henry Trotter's parents have been eaten by a rhinoceros, so now he lives with his two repulsive aunts. One hot day something peculiar happens and an enormous peach grows in their garden. The BFG: The BFG is a nice and jumbly giant. In fact, he is the only big firendly giant in Giant Country. All the other giants are bit bonecrunching brutes, and now the BFG and his friend Sophie must stop them guzzling up little human beans - with some help from Her Majesty The Queen. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Charlie Bucket desperately wants to eat more than cabbage soup every day. But, even more than that, he longs to see Wonka's enormous chocolate factory! Matilda: Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. Miss Trunchbull is her terrifing headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers.
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39,60 € 52,80€

The Magic Finger and The Minpins (R/I) CD


Puffin Audiobooks presents two of Roald Dahl's magical stories brought to life on audio by Kate Winslet, The Minpins and The Magic Finger. The Minpins Little Billy doesn't really believe there are monsters in the wood, but the red-hot smoke-belching gruncher is real enough, and so are the tiny minpins, whose miniature world is in danger. The Magic Finger read by Kate Winslet 'Well, that did it. I saw red. And before I was able to stop myself, I did something I never meant to do. I put the magic finger on them all!'
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12,50 €

Danny the Champion of the World


A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero - David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father a boy could wish for. Life is happy and peaceful in their gipsy caravan, until one day Danny discovers his dad has been breaking the law. What's more, soon Danny has to join his father as they attempt to pull off a daring and devilish plot against their horrible, greedy neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after a monumental bash on the head , sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
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10,31 €

James and the Giant Peach


"A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. The hugely popular story of James and his journey to New York with the strangest group of insect friends. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
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9,50 €

Twists


"A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero" - David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
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8,80 €

BFG


Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And theres only one giant who can stop them - the BFG. Hes the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends forever.
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9,50 €

Magic Finger


A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero' - David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. The story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry she zaps a punishment on them with her magic flashing finger! This edition has a great new cover, with illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about Roald Dahl and his world. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and total sales are over 100 million worldwide! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
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8,80 €

Fantastic Mr. Fox


Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanest three farmers you could meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox - but he has other plans."A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero - David WalliamsPhizz-whizzing new branding for the worlds No.1 storyteller - RoaldDahl! Bold and exciting and instantly recognisable with QuentinBlakes inimitable artwork. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the meanestthree farmers you could meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox -but he has other plans! Roald Dahl, the best-loved of childrenswriters, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school inEngland he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to writeafter "a monumental bash on the head", sustained as an RAF pilot inWorld War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of thebest-known and best-loved childrens illustrators and its impossiblenow to think of Roald Dahls writings without imagining QuentinBlakes illustrations.
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8,50 €