Sylvia Plath: Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guil...

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Mary Ventura's mother and father force her to board a train and instruct her to take it to the very end of the line, the Ninth Kingdom. There the conductor will tell her where to go. When the train begins to move, an older woman sits down next to ...

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, an...

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