Books
Matilda has read a variety of books, especially at the age of four, when she read many books in six months:
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Tess of the 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
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
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