The Top 10 Short Stories - The British: The top ten short stories of all time written by British authors.
Written by G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and
Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley and David Shaw Parker
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About this audiobook
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.
In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?
The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.
Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.
The British literary tradition almost needs no introduction. World famous authors are not sprinkled but saturate history with a remarkable range of genres and forms that few, if any, can equal. Down the centuries they have written in ground-breaking ways on the world they know and the one they imagine.
Genius really does have many names.
1 - The Top 10 - The British - An Introduction
2 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton
3 - An Informer by Joseph Conrad
4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens
5 - Sextons Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell
6 - August Heat by W F Harvey
7 - Lost Hearts by M R James
8 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence
9 - The Interlopers by Saki
10 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
11 - Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf
G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher and critic known for his creative wordplay. Born in London, Chesterton attended St. Paul’s School before enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art at University College. His professional writing career began as a freelance critic where he focused on art and literature. He then ventured into fiction with his novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday as well as a series of stories featuring Father Brown.
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