# Lust

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- Book: [Lust](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/lust) ([Lust.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl/lust.md))
- Authors: [Roald Dahl](https://www.bookquiver.com/roald-dahl)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-07-1818-561-9
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2016-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor, a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband . . . Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker. Collected together for the first time, stories include Madame Rosette , Neck , Georgy Porgy , The Visitor , The Last Act , The Great Switcheroo , Bitch , Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life , The Ratcatcher and Nunc Dimittis .