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Georgy Porgy

by Roald Dahl

Read the Book as a PDF: Georgy Porgy

Listen to the story as an Audiobook: Georgy Porgy

This week we will be reading 'Georgy Porgy' by Roald Dahl. The story is about a neurotic and celibate vicar, George, who is pursued by lustful spinsters in his country parish. The title is derived from 'Georgie Porgie', a 19th-century English nursery rhyme.

The story is narrated by a sexually repressed vicar, George, who dislikes any kind of physical contact with women, though he appreciates their beauty. This becomes a problem in the village where his parish is, as the local spinsters try to seduce him. His anxieties may stem from a memory of his late mother, who, seeking to educate her young son, showed him a rabbit giving birth in a cage in their garage. What transpired left him somewhat traumatised. 

This story takes several slightly dark turns and has a few revelations that might leave the tender of heart somewhat perturbed, but none the less, the story does leave one plenty to dwell on and certainly plenty for us to talk about in the book club. 

What did you make of this story??

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About the Author

Roald Dahl is the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and a treasury of original, evergreen, and beloved children’s books. He remains for many the world’s No. 1 storyteller.

Born in Llandaff, Wales, on 13th September 1916 to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Dahl was named after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian who had been the first man to reach the South Pole just four years earlier. A heroic start in life. But his early years were blighted by the tragic deaths of his older sister, Astri, and his father.

Wanting the best for her only son, his mother sent him to boarding school - first to St Peter's, Weston-super-Mare; then, in 1929, to Repton - where many bizarre and memorable events would later be recounted in Boy. Pupils at Repton were invited to trial chocolate bars, a memory that stayed with Dahl throughout his life, inspiring Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Despite his death in 1990 Dahl’s own life story continues to play out through his fiction. In many of his stories the reader experiences Dahl’s metamorphosis into his own characters – with similarities seen between Dahl and several of his heroic creations in his children’s books.

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