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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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating)
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  • 6 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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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Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Language
English
Pages
270

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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

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
Paperback in English - Ulverscroft edition
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
2011, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - Reissued
Cover of: M'n liefje, m'n duifje
M'n liefje, m'n duifje
2011-02, Rainbow Pockets
Paperback in Dutch
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
2010, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Someone like you
Someone like you
1989?, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
1961-08, Dell
Paperback in English - 1st Dell printing
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
1961 08, Dell
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Dell printing
Cover of: Someone Like You
Someone Like You
1954, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English

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Library of Congress
PR6054.A35

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL28437852M
ISBN 13
9780141189642

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL45868W

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