Un-‘woke’ Roald Dahl books listed at $7K include ‘ugly,’ ‘fat’ and ‘female’

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maligned by many, the notorious Roald Dahl word purge could prove a boon to one segment of society: the owners of the original books. “Unedited” versions of the classic children’s novels have reportedly been listed for as much as $7,000 on eBay.This comes after the news broke that Puffin Books — a Penguin Books imprint for children — had tapped so-called sensitivity experts to scrub language they deemed offensive in an effort to appease the “woke” masses.

This politically correct makeover included removing the words “fat” or “ugly,” and making the beloved Oompa Loompas of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gender-neutral.Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company made the changes in conjunction with the advocacy group Inclusive Minds, which its spokesperson said is “a collective for people who are passionate about inclusion and accessibility in children’s literature,” according to a spokesperson who spoke to the Daily Mail.Yet there’s a silver lining to the Willy Woke-ification for some enterprising cynics, who could potentially rake in a boatload selling the unaltered versions of the books on Ebay.

For example, a copy of “Matilda” — which changed the story’s villain Mrs. Trunchbull from the “most formidable female” to the “most formidable woman” — is listed for $2,731.39 on the auction site.Another E-bazaar user is hawking an unvarnished edition of “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” for an eye-popping whopping $7,216.

In the “inclusive” iteration, the diminutive staffers of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory are referred to as “small people” instead of “small men” while the honey-grubbing Augustus Gloop is no longer “fat” but “enormous.”Literati can also pay a staggering $1,800 for an original copy of “The Twits,” in which.