Books & Authors

This is a list of other books and authors mentioned in Matilda with a note of reference.

I liked The Secret Garden best of all.  It was full of mystery.  The mystery of the room behind the closed door and the mystery of the garden behind the big wall.

"Great Expectations," Matilda read, "by Charles Dickens.  
I'd love to try it."

 

Matilda read the following list:  Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Tess of D"Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Gone to Earth by Mary Webb, Kim by Rudyard Kipling,The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, The Old Man and the Sea by, Ernest Hemingway, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Good Companions by J.B. Priest;ley, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, Animal Farm by George Orwell

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives  She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. 

She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling.

She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.









"It isn't trash, daddy, it's lovely.  It's called The Red Pony.  It's by John Stienbeck, an American writer.  Why don't you try it? You'll love it."