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A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Category: Short 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
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
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Category: Short 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
Cosmopolitan (Faber Stories) by Akhil Sharma
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Category: Short 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
Dante and the Lobster (Faber Stories) by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Short 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
Daughters of Passion (Faber Stories) by J. O'FAOLAIN
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Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
Her story was this: she had been an orphan, her mother probably a whore. Brought up by nuns, she had lost her faith, found another, fought for it and been imprisoned. This was inexact but serviceable. On the twelfth day of her hunger strike, Maggy is unable to tell the difference between what is real an ...Show more
Elegy for Easterly (Faber Stories) by P. GAPPAH
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be dest ...Show more
Fairy Tales (Faber Stories) by Marianne Moore
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, ...Show more
Giacomo Joyce: Faber Stories by James Joyce
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
This heart is sore and sad. Crossed in love? The manuscript of 'Giacomo Joyce', written in James Joyce's best handwriting and folded between the covers of a school notebook, was discovered in Trieste. Most likely written in 1914, some of it served as a rehearsal for passages in Ulysses. Had Joyce meant ...Show more
Homeland (Faber Stories) by Barbara Kingsolver
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'You have to marry outside your clan,' she said. 'That's law. All the people we knew were Bird Clan. All the others were gone.' When Gloria's great-grandmother, Green Leaf, left her home in the Hiwassee Valley of Tennessee, it was with a man on a stolen horse. She was one of the fugitive bands of Chero ...Show more
Inner Room (Faber Stories) by Robert Aickman
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncan ...Show more
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead (Faber Stories) by Milan Kundera
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Category: Short Stories | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality. Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to E ...Show more
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: Faber Stories by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Short 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