An edition of Someone Like You [18 stories] (1953)

Someone Like You

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An edition of Someone Like You [18 stories] (1953)

Someone Like You

1st Dell printing

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  • 7 Have read

In these diabolical stories--seasoned with international flavour and served with deadly, deadpan humour, Roald Dahl cooks up wildly improbable plots, peopled with themes unique and unlikely characters in all fiction.

At first taste, his tales seem as normal as apple pie. It is only at the very end, when the last morsel has been savored and swallowed, that, like a final twist of lemon, Mr. Dahl makes known his stinging, acid bite.
--back cover

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Dell
Language
English
Pages
320

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Subjects
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 Foxley
Places
London, Europe, Fleet Street, England, Mike Schofield's house, Jamaica, Paris, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, India, British Empire
Times
20th century, Autumn 1913
Edition Availability
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
Paperback in English - Ulverscroft edition
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Algú com tu
2016, Sembra Llibres
in Catalan
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Someone Like You
2012-03-21, Penguin
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M'n liefje, m'n duifje
2011-02, Rainbow Pockets
Paperback in Dutch
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Someone Like You
2011, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - Reissued
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Someone Like You
2010, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Someone Like You
2009, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Degustator
2003, Zakharov
in Russian
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Someone Like You
2000, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Someone like you
1989?, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
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Cover of: ...und noch ein Kubchen.
...und noch ein Kubchen.
1989, Rowohlt
in German
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M'n liefje, m'n duifje
1987, Meulenhoff
Paperback in Dutch - 26e
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Someone like you
1978, Knopf
in English
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Someone Like You
December 13, 1973, Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Bizzare! Bizarre! (French Language Edition)
October 1, 1973, French & European Pubns
Paperback
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Bizarre! Bizarre!
June 8, 1973, Editions Flammarion
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Someone like you
1972, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - [1st] Pocket Book ed.
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Someone like you.
1970, Penguin Books]
in English - [Rev. and expanded ed.]
Cover of: ...und noch ein Küßchen!
...und noch ein Küßchen!: Weitere ungewöhnliche Geschichten
1969-12, Rowohlt
Taschenbuch in German - 131.-150. Tausend Dezember 1969
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Someone Like You
1961 08, Dell
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Dell printing
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Someone Like You
1961-08, Dell
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Someone Like You
1954, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English
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Someone like you.
1953, Knopf
in English - [1st ed.]
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Someone Like You
Jun 15, 1953, Knopf
hardcover
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Someone Like You by Dahl Roald (2011-09-01) Paperback
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Table of Contents

Taste
Lamb to the Slaughter
Man from the South
The Soldier
My Lady Love, My Dove
Dip in the Pool
Galloping Foxley
Skin
Poison
The Wish
Neck
The Sound Machine
Nunc Dimittis
The Great Automatic Grammatizator
Claud's Dog: The Ratcatcher
Claud's Dog: Rummins
Claud's Dog: Mr Hoddy
Claud's Dog: Mr Feasey

Edition Notes

Cover painting by Victor Kalin.

Dell ; F139.

Copyright Date
1953

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6054.A38 S65 1961

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
320 p. ;
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24946023M
Internet Archive
someonelikeyou1953dahl
OCLC/WorldCat
7219834
Goodreads
54153130

Work Description

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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