<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 9318922 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator </Td> </Tr> <P> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl . The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka . </P> <P> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin, 11 months later . The book has been adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005 . The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was written by Roald Dahl in 1971 and published in 1972 . Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series but never finished it . </P>

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