An edition of Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)

Over to you: ten stories of flyers and flying.

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An edition of Over to You - Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946)

Over to you: ten stories of flyers and flying.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.5 (4 ratings)
  • 28 Want to read
  • 5 Have read

Over to You brings together 10 of Roald Dahl's earliest stories, many of them set during the Second World War and drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot. It includes his first paid piece of writing, the short story A Piece of Cake, which was originally published in 1942 in American magazine The Saturday Evening Post under the title Shot Down Over Libya.

The 10 stories featured are:


Contained in:
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl: Volume I
Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald

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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Pages
159

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Previews available in: Russian English Dutch

Subjects

World War II, Royal Air Force, resistance to interrogation, hard water, soft water, World War, Aeronautics, Literature, Air pilots in fiction, Fiction, Air pilots, Aeronautics in fiction, Young Adult, short stories, English short stories, Fiction, general, English literature, World War, 1939-1945, British Aerial operations, English War stories, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Romans, nouvelles, Opérations aériennes britanniques, Récits de guerre anglais, Nouvelles, Aerial Military operations, British, Jews, Atrocities

People

God, Peter Williamson

Places

Africa, Greece, Great Britain, Vichy France, Brighton, England

Times

20th century, 1941-45

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Перехожу на прием
Перехожу на прием
2011, Домино, ЭКСМО
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: Over to You
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying
1991?, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Over en Sluiten
Over en Sluiten
1988-10, Meulenhoff
Mass Market Paperback in Dutch - Dertiende druk
Cover of: Over to you: ten stories of flyers and flying.
Over to you: ten stories of flyers and flying.
1973, Penguin
in English

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Table of Contents

Death of an old, old man.
An African story.
A piece of cake.
Madame Rosette.
Katina.
Yesterday was beautiful.
They shall not grow old.
Beware of the dog.
Only this.
Someone like you.

Edition Notes

Published in
Harmondsworth

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ3.D1373 Ov6, PR6054.A35 Ov6

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p.
Number of pages
159

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5086794M
ISBN 10
0140035745
LCCN
74158082
LibraryThing
54448
Goodreads
44522

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL45867W

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Oh God, how I am frightened.
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December 24, 2025 Edited by MARC Bot set source_records based on initial machine_comment
September 25, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot fix TOC
December 1, 2019 Edited by Lisa Moved edition to primary work.
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record