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Author | Roald Dahl |
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Language | English |
Genre | Mystery, horror, science fiction |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1953 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 359 pp |
Someone Like You is the second collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf.
It contains eighteen short stories. The final four are grouped under a collective title. [1]
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [9] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis 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". [10]
Van Morrison's song "Someone Like You" is named after this collection. [11]
Alfred Hitchcock Presents adapted several stories from the book:
Tales of the Unexpected also adapted several stories from the book: