He starts selling more pills for 250 pounds each. He tells them the pills are very expensive and earns 1000 pounds. He gives some pills to certain ambassadors who have expressed interest. On his return, hestarts making pills called Professor Yousopoff's potency pills. After a month in Paris he travels to The Sudan to buy Blister Beetles powder. You can't think of anything but sex.Ī month later Oswald goes to Paris, because he has nothing to do in the year that he has to wait before he can study at Cambridge.

The stranger says that a strange insect, the Blister Beetle, has been discovered in The Sudan, which if you squeeze it produces a powder with the same effect as a Spanish Fly, but ten times stronger. Oswald is giving a party, when a stranger knocks on the door and tells Oswald he's a friend of his father. This book is the diary of Oswald Cornelius Esquire, published by his nephew after Oswald's death. Oswald wants to make a million pounds before he's thirty. The story is a theme novel, based on the most important theme in the novel, which is making money. The Twentieth century, second part (1945 - now). Stories: Twenty-nine kisses (1969) The wonderful story of Henry Sugar, and six more (1977).Ĭhild's books: The magic finger (1966) Charlie and the great glass elevator (1972) The BFG (1982) The witches (1983) Mathilda (1988).Īutobiographical: Boy (1984) Going solo (1986). He is the winner of England's two most distinguished literary awards, the Withbread Prize and the Children's Book Award. In his work, he often used comical as well as gruesome effects. His first two novels, James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, are made into films. In the sixties he began writing children's stories in 1960. He lived in England with his wife and children. His first writing was named: Over to you: 10 stories of flyers and flying (1946).

government, as a member of the British diplomatic corps. During World War II, he joined Britain's Royal Air Force as a pilot and afterwards he spied on the U.S. He worked in East Africa for the Shell Oil Company. Dahl never intended to become a writer, he was always looking for adventure. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Llandaf, South Wales. Roald says: 'And here's the story of my uncle Oswald, without any changes.' The title refers to Oswald Cornelius Esquire, the uncle of Roald Dahl, the author.

A story about my uncle language