Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl

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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl that follows a young boy who wins a golden ticket to visit a mysterious chocolate factory. The book has become a classic of children's literature, beloved for its imaginative world-building and memorable characters.

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Author: Roald Dahl
First published: 1964
Editions: 221
Subjects: Childrens Media Tie-In Books, Children's Middle Grade Action & Adventure Books, Children's Picture Books, Avarice, Behavior, Chocolat, Chocolate, Chocolate factories

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publication date: 1964-00-00
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by the British writer Roald Dahl. It features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of an eccentric chocolatier named Willy Wonka.

The story was originally inspired by Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory—inspiring Dahl's idea for the recipe-thieving spies (such as Wonka's rival Slugworth) depicted in the book. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story.