Dahl That Glitters

Dahl, the son of Norwegian parents who was born in Wales in 1916 and died in 1990, wrote what seemed to my 7-year-old self an endless series of fantastical, engaging books that were at once delicious and malicious. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory did not merely allow the child reader to enter a dream world of boundless chocolate but also indulged other, more malevolent fantasies, such as when the hoggish Augustus Gloop is deposited in a vat of liquid cocoa.