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An edition of Someone Like You [18 stories]
(1953)
Someone Like You
1st Dell printing
by Roald Dahl
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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.
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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 FoxleyPlaces
London, Europe, Fleet Street, England, Mike Schofield's house, Jamaica, Paris, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, India, British EmpireTimes
20th century, Autumn 1913Showing 7 featured editions. View all 25 editions?
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Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
Paperback
in English
- Ulverscroft edition
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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.
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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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Kiss, Kiss / Over to You / Switch Bitch / Someone Like You / Four Tales of the Unexpected / My Uncle Oswald
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Dark
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