Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Well, thought Belacqua, it's a quick death, God help us all. It is not. 'Dante and the Lobster' is the first of the linked short stories in Samuel Beckett's first book, More Pricks Than Kicks . Published in 1934, its style was recognisably indebted to that of his mentor, James Joyce, and crammed with li ...Show more
Cosmopolitan (Faber Stories) by Akhil Sharma
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused by Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Even her nostrils suggested a frank sexuality. Gopal wanted to put his hands on her waist and pull her toward him. And then he realized that he had. Gopal Maurya's wife has left him, preferring ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
Victim (Faber Stories) by P. D. JAMES
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel ...Show more
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, ...Show more
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Faber 90 Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It i ...Show more