Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl · 1964
Literary Fiction · ranked #22 in category
Charlie Bucket, the poorest child in a town, finds the last Golden Ticket and enters Willy Wonka's extraordinary chocolate factory alongside four deeply unpleasant children who are each eliminated by their own vices. Dahl's morality tale is disguised as a fantasy: a story about greed, humility and the rewards of being genuinely good.
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