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An edition of Someone Like You [18 stories]
(1953)
Someone like you
by Roald Dahl
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One of Roald Dahl's earliest collections of short stories, Someone Like You begins his bizarre, macabre and blackly amusing journey into the realm of the imagination and the dark side of human nature.
A little boy sits on the stairs in 'The Wish', watching as the yellow and black carpet comes alive in the shape of writhing, glistening snakes. In 'Taste', the opening story, a gentleman's bet at a dinner party takes on sinister proportions. 'The Great Automatic Grammatizator' is the darkly satirical tale of how a machine threatens to make writers obsolete, and in 'Skin' an art dealer makes his fortune by trading in human flesh.
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Someone Like You
2018, Ulverscroft, Ulverscroft Collections
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Revised and expanded ed. originally published (B61-4661), London, Joseph, 1961. Originally published (B54-4934), London, Secker & Warburg, 1954.
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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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