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

Someone like you

[1st] Pocket Book ed.

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

Someone like you

[1st] Pocket Book ed.

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  • ★★★★ 4.0 (1 rating)
  • 69 Want to read
  • 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
Pocket Books
Language
English

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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
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Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
Paperback in English - Ulverscroft edition
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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
1989?, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Someone like you
Someone like you
1972, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - [1st] Pocket Book ed.
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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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Table of Contents

Taste
Lamb to the slaughter
Man from the South
The soldier
My lady love, my dove
Dip inthe pool
Galloping Foxley
Skin
Poison
The wish
Neck
The sound machine
Nunc dimittis
The great automatic grammatisator
Claud's dog

Edition Notes

1st American publ.: New York : Knopf, 1953.
Partly publ. before in "The New Yorker", "Collier's", "Harper's Magazine" and "Town & Country".

Published in
New York

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
246 p.
Dimensions
18 x x centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7664694M
ISBN 10
0671774859
ISBN 13
9780671774851
LibraryThing
52620
Goodreads
283380

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL45868W

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