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The story features The Twits (Mr. and Mrs. Twit), a spiteful, idle, unkempt couple who continuously play nasty practical jokes on each other to amuse themselves, and exercise their devious wickedness on their pet monkeys. Dahl's disgust at beards was the inspiration for Mr. Twit.
Mr. Twit. Mr Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes and his nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes. Mr Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was neither of these ...
Courtesy of Penguin Books Ltd. even if he opens his mouth very wide, it is imposs- ible for him to get a spoonful of beef-stew or ice- cream and chocolate sauce into it without leaving some of it on the hairs. Mr Twit didn’t even bother to open his mouth wide when he ate.
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The Twits, as a book, has, as Dahl himself acknowledged, occasionally made adults feel physically sick — perhaps not least because of the graphic description of what lies within Mr Twits' beard in the second chapter of the book (all the chapters being very short by the standards of Dahl's novels). However, it seems it was written with the view that...
The idea of The Twits was triggered by Dahl's simple desire to write "something about beards" since he had an acute dislike of them himself. The first sentence of the story — "what a lot of hairy faces one sees nowadays" — is a genuine complaint.[citation needed] The Twits as a book has remained so successful since its publication in 1980 — at leas...
ISBN 0-224-06491-6 (hardcover, 2003) ISBN 0-14-130107-4 (paperback, 2002) ISBN 0-375-82242-9 (hardcover, 2002) ISBN 0-14-131138-X (paperback, 2001) ISBN 0-14-034640-6 (paperback, 1991) ISBN 0-14-031406-7 (paperback, 1982) ISBN 0-224-01855-8(hardcover, 1980)
After the Worms in the Spaghetti trick, Mr. Twit makes Mrs. Twit believe that she is slowly shrinking by gluing pieces of wood no thicker than a penny onto her cane each night, as well as onto the legs of a stool.
Nov 22, 2012 · Dramatisation of the opening sequence from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits'. There are detailed descriptions of the characters, their actions and speech, establishing their nasty natures. Mr and Mrs Twit...
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Mr. Twit Gets a Horrid Shock – Mr. Twit is stunned to see his wife coming back down from the sky. She shouts and calls him names, and vows to have revenge. Before Mr. Twit can run away, Mrs. Twit lands on him and whacks him with her stick.
