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The first seven stories are from Someone Like You, originally published by Martin Seeker & Warburg in 1954 and republished by Michael Joseph Ltd in 1961. The remaining stories are from Kiss Kiss, first published by Michael Joseph in 1960. All the stories appeared in an omnibus volume entitled Twenty-Nine Kisses from Roald Dahl published by Michael Joseph in 1969.
This selection first
published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1979
Published in Penguin Books 1979
Copyright © Roald Dahl, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1979
The moral right of the
author has been asserted
Acknowledgement is hereby made to The New
Yorker, Collier’s, Harper’s Magazine,
Esquire, Nugget and Playboy, in
which some of his stories included in this volume first
appeared.
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ISBN: 978-0-14-192901-9