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Someone Like You
de DAHL, Roald
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Certainly the Most Distinguished Book of Short Stories of 1953"
DAHL, Roald. Someone Like You. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 191 x 133 mm.). [x], [1]-359, [1, Printers note] pp.
Publisher's cream cloth , front cover with decoration in pink and black, lower cover with Borzoi monogram in black.Spine with pink panel, lettered in black, top edge stained pink, others uncut. Pictorial dust jacket, unclipped with price $3.50 at top of front flap. A near fine copy.
First New York edition preceding the London edition of 1954.
Someone Like You is a collection of eighteen short stories including Taste, Lamb to the Slaughter, The Soldier, Skin, The Wish and Nunc Dimittis (Now lettest thou depart).
The American book critic Edward Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". Science fiction editors 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".
Van Morrison's song Someone Like You is named after this collection.
The British film director Alfred Hitchcock adapted half a dozen of Dahl's tales for his own television show in the late '50s and '60s. All six can be found between the two short story collections, Someone Like You and Kiss, Kiss: This volume contains Dip in the Pool, Lamb to the Slaughter, and Man from the South.
Two of the stories in this collection Poison & The Rat Catcher were adapted by American filmmaker Wes Anderson as short films for Netflix.
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century
DAHL, Roald. Someone Like You. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 191 x 133 mm.). [x], [1]-359, [1, Printers note] pp.
Publisher's cream cloth , front cover with decoration in pink and black, lower cover with Borzoi monogram in black.Spine with pink panel, lettered in black, top edge stained pink, others uncut. Pictorial dust jacket, unclipped with price $3.50 at top of front flap. A near fine copy.
First New York edition preceding the London edition of 1954.
Someone Like You is a collection of eighteen short stories including Taste, Lamb to the Slaughter, The Soldier, Skin, The Wish and Nunc Dimittis (Now lettest thou depart).
The American book critic Edward Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". Science fiction editors 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".
Van Morrison's song Someone Like You is named after this collection.
The British film director Alfred Hitchcock adapted half a dozen of Dahl's tales for his own television show in the late '50s and '60s. All six can be found between the two short story collections, Someone Like You and Kiss, Kiss: This volume contains Dip in the Pool, Lamb to the Slaughter, and Man from the South.
Two of the stories in this collection Poison & The Rat Catcher were adapted by American filmmaker Wes Anderson as short films for Netflix.
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century
Sinopsis
Roald Dahl is known for his sense of dry, sometimes dark humor in his children's books...but then there is this. Someone Like You is a darker collection of tales for adults, and mature young adults. There's the tale of the gambler who collects little fingers from losers, a lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, and more. Some stories included: "Someone Like You," "A Dip in The Pool," "Skin," "Taste," "Lamb to the Slaughter, "Claud's Dog," and "Galloping Foxy."
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- David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
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- 05724
- Título
- Someone Like You
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- DAHL, Roald
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- Editorial
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953
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