The Top 10 Short Stories - British Men: The top ten short stories of all time written by British male authors.

Written by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence and 6 more

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley and David Shaw-Parker

The top 10 short stories of all time written by British male authors.

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.

Here, in this volume are distilled the true merits of men and their words. In literary terms the form takes many ways but crisply puts together and drives forward with narratives that reveal the width and depth of talents that justly remain household names to this day.

1 - The Top 10 - The British Men - An Introduction

2 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton

3 - An Informer by Joseph Conrad

4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

5 - August Heat by W F Harvey

6 - The Monkeys Paw by W W Jacobs

7 - Lost Hearts by M R James

8 - The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

9 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence

10 - The Interlopers by Saki

11 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839678493

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.