Someone Like You
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
0394446151
Publish date: November 1953
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
Pages no: 359
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Horror,
Short Stories
I'm absolutely mystified at the high ratings for this book. I only picked it up to complete a challenge what a mistake. Well I'm not a fan of short stories but I have read and enjoyed many shorts over the years but this was definitely not one of the finer ones. I will say that the stories were wel...
1. Man from the SouthDramatisation by Stephen Sheridan of five darkly comic tales by Roald Dahl. A young marine agrees to a bizarre wager with an elderly South American. Storyteller ...... Charles DanceOld Man ...... Andrew SachsMarine ...... Danny MahoneyGirl ...... Donnla HughesSpanish Woman ........
I didn't even know Roald Dahl wrote children books until I was in my twenties. My first introduction to this author was the TV scripts from the Alfred Hitchcock Show of the 50s and 60s, noticeably "Lamb to The Slaughter" in which a betrayed housewife kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, and ...
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