Dahl, Roald.

Innocence : tales of youth and guide / Dahl, Roald. - London : Penguin Classic, c2017. - 273 p.

We begin life in innocence, but how do we come to lose it? What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up. Among other stories, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her father, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow commuter once bullied him at school.

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Dahl, Roald -- Childhood and youth. Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Children -- Fiction. Hoaxes -- Fiction.