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

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

Someone like you

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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

Publish Date
Publisher
Dell
Language
English
Pages
320

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Previews available in: English Dutch

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

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Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
Paperback in English - Ulverscroft edition
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Cover of: M'n liefje, m'n duifje
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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Cover of: Someone like you
Someone like you
1989?, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
1961 08, Dell
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Dell printing
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Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
1961-08, Dell
Paperback in English - 1st Dell printing
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Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
1954, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English
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New York

Edition Notes

Cover painting by Victor Kalin.

Dell ; F139.

Copyright Date
1953

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6054.A38 S65 1961

The Physical Object

Pagination
320 p. ;
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24946023M
Internet Archive
someonelikeyou1953dahl
OCLC/WorldCat
7219834

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