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Someone Like You (short story collection)

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1953

Publisher
  
Alfred A. Knopf

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Publication date
  
1953

Pages
  
359 pp

Author
  
Roald Dahl

Country
  
United States of America

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Genres
  
Fiction, Short story, Horror fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Speculative fiction

Awards
  
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Similar
  
Works by Roald Dahl, Fiction books

Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.

Contents

Contents

  • "Dip in the Pool"
  • "Galloping Foxley"
  • "Lamb to the Slaughter"
  • "Man from the South"
  • "Mr. Feasey"
  • "Mr. Hoddy"
  • "My Lady Love, My Dove"
  • "Neck"
  • "Nunc Dimittis"
  • "Poison"
  • "Rummins"
  • "Skin"
  • "Taste"
  • "The Great Automatic Grammatizator"
  • "The Ratcatcher"
  • "The Soldier"
  • "The Sound Machine"
  • "The Wish"

    • Reception

    Boucher and McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section."

    Awards

  • Edgar Award, 1954

    • References

    Someone Like You (short story collection) Wikipedia
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