This wonderful set includes the unabridged performances of THE TWITS, MATILDA, GEORGES MARVELLOUS MEDICINE, DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD, CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR, THE BFG, THE WITCHES, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, FANTASIC MR FOX AND OTHER ANIMALS
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...