
373 Roald Dahl
The History of Literature
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Dal spent his summers in norway with his mother's family. He really did not like being sent away from school. And he put a brave face on his experience, concealing just how unhappy he was. Things got better once he got out of school. Although he was on a track to go to university, he skipped it and found work with an oil company which sent him around the world. For britain, he served in a colonial army for a few months, and then he joined the royal air force as a pilot after some trainin. There wasn't a whole lot of training, it seems. He had flown less than eight hours when he was given a plane to
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