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  • By: Roald Dahl
  • Narrated by: Roald Dahl
  • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (100 ratings)

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Roald Dahl Reads Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Four More Stories

By: Roald Dahl
Narrated by: Roald Dahl
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Publisher's Summary

Penguin presents the abridged audiobook edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Four More Stories by Roald Dahl, read by Roald Dahl himself.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Abridged)

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) 

A little magic can take you a long way.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Abridged) 

Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!

The Enormous Crocodile (Abridged) 

This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls.

The Magic Finger (Abridged) 

Horrible neighbours learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!

©2016 Roald Dahl (P)2016 Penguin Audio

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fun

As with all of Dahl's books, these stories are great.
Well read, and great to hear Dahl himself!
However, we were disappointed that the stories were condensed... they are not nearly as good as 'the read thing'

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I Wish He'd Recorded More.

I love being able to listen to the words being read by the person who wrote them and knew how they were meant to be said- I know there are celebrity readings of Roald Dahl's books and I'll definitely get "The Twits" read by Richard Ayoade as soon as I get a new bunch of credits.

I only wish I could listen to him read more of his stories, I love it so much that I'll definitely listen to it again and again- it calms me down and lets me escape to the childhood stories which kept me busy and gave my mind somewhere else to be during any situation where I had access to a book.

I'll be looking into finding if there are any other recordings of readings done by Roald Dahl, this one is definitely a very special Audible purchase that I would encourage any fan of fiction or classics to try.

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Loved it!♥️

I loved this book because I loved hearing Roald dahls voice in his own books I would recommend this book to children who I think would love this book

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Roald Dalh

Epic it’s just epic he’s just an amazing fantastic writer epic awesome fantastic great writer

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The first time you were able and I didn’t have a chance I

Endr said that he had not been informed by his family that he had died from a stroke in January of a heart condition and was in a critical

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Roald Dahl

It is a great book I like all of your story’s. You are a great writer!!!❤️😍😊🥰💕💙💜💗🖤💛💖💞💚❣️💓🧡💝💟💟💟💟💟💟💟

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I loved it!

I think this book was amazing to read and listen to.
It inspired me to make a book of my own.

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brilliant!

What an absolute treat having Roald Dahl read his own marvelous, imaginative stories. I thoroughly recommend this audible collection.

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boring

Couldn't even get past the first chapter. Rried hard to persevere with book, but just could not.

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Good

Like it it was good yolo good good good goody good good good good good goody bot lollie zig zag up down you

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  • James Chappell
  • 20-09-2016

Great books but only one file?

Any additional comments?

So there's only one file/chapter. This means I'm having to guess when one story ends and another starts. Surely that's a massive failing here....

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  • Otter
  • 09-05-2017

Abridged

Abridged version even though described as unabridged.
Returned abridged and unabridged version purchased. Buyer beware

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  • R.P.
  • 15-01-2017

Abridged

This is an abridged version so cannot be followed with the actual book. This is frustrating as it was not clear when I bought it.

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  • In car listener
  • 22-07-2017

not as described - spoilt by poor description

What disappointed you about Roald Dahl Reads Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Four More Stories?

Despite the description claiming the books to be unabridged, they're seriously cropped. Almost all the magic has been pulled away from the stories, there's no detail or whimsy left.

What did you like best about this story?

They reminded me that real books still have a valid place in society.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

Dahl read with enthusiasm, but it was hard to differentiate between reading narrative and character voices at times.

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The closest to a redeeming feature is that there were four books for the price of one. But that meant that they're only a quarter as good as a single book.

Any additional comments?

I'm going to return this book and get (what I hope really is) the unabridged single edition of Charlie and the chocolate factory.

I suppose smaller children - with limited attention spans or don't know the stories - will enjoy them, but my kids who are big Chocolate factory fans, were sorely disappointed.

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  • Lee
  • 11-10-2016

wish was played good

would be a great story if it would play right I was really looking forward to it but keeps missing words out

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  • Gordon Brophy
  • 15-05-2020

Terrible narration

My children couldn’t listen to this book as they were scared of the voice. Such a shame as it’s a great book but they just couldn’t get passed the voice... neither could I to be honest.

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  • STEPHEN D CLARKE
  • 15-04-2018

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My pants fell down because of Donald Hyundai is the day that you can make a new phone and do a good thing and then go back and then go get it done so you don’t know how much I love it I just want you guys and you guys have to get the money and then I will be back at my car yt I have a car and then go get my truck I just found it I have to go to your car broom and I can get my car obroom was it in my truck

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  • victroia rexworthy
  • 13-09-2016

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very good and 5 in one read by Roald Dahl him self GET IT NOW!

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 08-05-2023

Could be better but overall good 👍🏻

A very good book 📚 but Roald Dahl could have more expression.also the stories could be longer.😀

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  • Lucym8885
  • 18-12-2022

Not the best

I'm not so sure about this. I usually like Roald Dahl stories but this one is not my favourite. Sorry. Bye. This is Nina , aged 9.

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