Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at…
Want to Read $ 11.49"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
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1. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
2. Mrs Fox
By: Sarah Hall
4.15
Format: 399 pages, ebook
'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more
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- literary fiction
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3. The Inner Room
By: Robert Aickman
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more
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4. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
5. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
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6. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
By: Milan Kundera
3.70
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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7. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
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8. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- 20th century
- horror
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- audiobook
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
9. Come Rain or Come Shine
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.65
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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10. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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11. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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12. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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13. Fairy Tales
By: Marianne Moore
3.25
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
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14. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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15. The Lydia Steptoe Stories
By: Djuna Barnes
3.38
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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16. The Victim
By: P.D. James
3.76
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more
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17. Ghostly Stories
By: Celia Fremlin
3.65
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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18. An Elegy for Easterly
By: Petina Gappah
3.51
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more
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19. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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20. Three Types of Solitude
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.46
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
21. Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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