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An edition of Someone Like You [18 stories]
(1953)
Someone like you
[1st] Pocket Book ed.
by Roald Dahl
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Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.
The 18 stories featured are:
Taste
Lamb to the Slaughter
Man from the South
The Soldier
My Lady Love, My Dove
Dip in the Pool
Galloping Foxley
Skin
Poison
Wish
Neck
Sound Machine
Nunc Dimittis
Great Automatic Grammatizator
Claud's Dog
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Contained in:
Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald
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short story, caviar, Bungarus, World War I, World War II, begging, prefects, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, Cadillacs, Social life and customs, Fiction, Short Stories, stockbrokers, Oenophilia, horror, black comedy, detectives, alibi, English fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)People
Mr Hoddy, Mr Feasey, Lionel Lampson, Gladys Ponsonby, Janet de Pelagia, John Royden, Basil Turton, Natalia Turton, Major Haddock, Jelks, Henry Moore, Harry Pope, Timber Woods, Dr. Ganderbai, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, narrator, Mike Schofield, Richard Pratt, Louise Schofield, Mary Maloney, Patrick Maloney, Carlos, William Botibol, William Perkins, Bruce FoxleyPlaces
London, Europe, Fleet Street, England, Mike Schofield's house, Jamaica, Paris, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, India, British EmpireTimes
20th century, Autumn 1913Showing 8 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
Paperback
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1444838776 9781444838770
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Someone like you
1972, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- [1st] Pocket Book ed.
0671774859 9780671774851
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Book Details
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Table of Contents
Taste
Lamb to the slaughter
Man from the South
The soldier
My lady love, my dove
Dip inthe pool
Galloping Foxley
Skin
Poison
The wish
Neck
The sound machine
Nunc dimittis
The great automatic grammatisator
Claud's dog
Edition Notes
1st American publ.: New York : Knopf, 1953.
Partly publ. before in "The New Yorker", "Collier's", "Harper's Magazine" and "Town & Country".
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Genres 1
Horror
16%
Humor
16%
Crime
16%
Paranormal
16%
Satire
16%
Anthology
16%
Mood 1
Strange
20%
Ominous
20%
Dark
20%
Suspenseful
20%
Tense
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| December 9, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| December 1, 2019 | Edited by Lisa | Moved edition to primary work. |
| August 23, 2010 | Edited by Lestevenon | Edited without comment. |
| August 23, 2010 | Edited by Lestevenon | Added new cover |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record. |