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Roald Dahl and intertextuality

By looking at the connections between the work of storyteller Roald Dahl and a range of other writers, Val Scullion and Marion Treby show that originality and plagiarism in literature are complex issues

Forest Troll (1890) by Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857–1914)
O. VAERING/ BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY

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■ ‘Marie was surprised to see that although [the wardrobe] was generally shut, the doors of it were now wide open, so that she could see her father’s travelling cloak of fox fur hanging in the front.’

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