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

by

  • 4.0 (1 rating)
  • 71 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 9 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

Publish Date
Publisher
Dell
Language
English
Pages
320

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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Edition Availability
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
Cover of: Someone Like You
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
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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Book Details

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.

Published in
New York, USA
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

Edition Identifiers

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

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL45868W

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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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