''Someone Like You'' is a collection of

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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. * "

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" * " Lamb to the Slaughter" * " Man from the South" * "The Soldier" * " My Lady Love, My Dove" * "

Dip in the Pool "Dip in the Pool" is a macabre short story by British writer Roald Dahl, originally published in the 19 January 1952 edition of ''The New Yorker''. It later appeared in the collection '' Someone Like You'' (1953). Plot summary On a British crui ...

" * " Galloping Foxley" * "

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" * " Poison" * "The Wish" * " Neck" * "The Sound Machine" * "

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" * "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" (republished as ''

The Great Automatic Grammatizator ''The Great Automatic Grammatizator'' (published in the U.S. as ''The Umbrella Man and Other Stories'') is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult ...

'' anthology) * "Claude's Dog" **"The Ratcatcher" ** "Rummins" ** "Mr. Feasey" ** "Mr. Hoddy"

Reception

Groff Conklin Edward Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904 – July 19, 1968) was an American science fiction anthologist. He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories (co-edited with physician Noah Fabricant), wrote books on home improvemen ...

called ''Someone Like You'' "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb".

Anthony Boucher William Anthony Parker White (August 21, 1911 – April 29, 1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher (), was an American author, critic, and editor who wrote several classic mystery novels, short stories, science fiction, and radio d ...

and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories s well astwo biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong don your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/ Collier/

Saki Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and cultu ...

section"."Recommended Reading," '' F&SF'', August 1954, p.79.

Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. As a teenager in t ...

's song Someone Like You is named after this collection.Van Morrison interview with Marty Whelan 4th Nov 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBbNsPbqbKU

Awards

* Edgar Award, 1954

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