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  • Published: 3 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141189642
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

Someone Like You




First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this collection of stories for adults, with a new foreword by Dom Joly

These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance as a short-story writer. They are wicked (as an old man attracts the attentions of those more interested in his skin than his wellbeing), shocking (as distasteful bets are made - a daughter's hand on the identity of a glass of claret, a finger risked for a Cadillac) and blackly humorous (as a cuckolded husband receives a chance to take his revenge out on his wife's neck). Someone Like You is as devilishly ingenious and suspenseful as writing gets.

  • Published: 3 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141189642
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

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About the author

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.

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