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Penguin Defends “Creepy” Cover Of “Charlie And The Chocolate Factory”

WORDS Posted: August 12, 2014 12:49 pm

“Members of the public reacted angrily when the new edition – part of the Penguin Modern Classics range – was revealed [last] Wednesday. The cover was deemed ‘misleading’ and ‘creepy’. Author Giles Paley-Phillips said it looked ‘more like Lolita‘. But Penguin said it stressed ‘the light and the dark aspects’ of Dahl’s work.”

WORDS Published: 08.08.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 08.08.14

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