The Top 10 Short Stories - 1920s: The top ten short stories of the 1920's.

Written by Franz Kafka, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, D. H. Lawrence and 6 more

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley and Christopher Ragland

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.

In this one decade the post-war period brings us the Jazz Age and the beginnings of the Great Depression, two ends of a human race in turmoil as the elite are confronted with the masses in a great social surge that will being further problems that stain humanity. Authors here begin to make a literary sense of what has happened and how their characters and narratives are dealing with questions that need answers.>

1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - An Introduction

2 - In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

3 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson

4 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

5 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald

6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

7 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

8 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence

9 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft

10 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

11 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Apr 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839679124

Franz Kafka

Born in Prague in 1883, the son of a self-made Jewish merchant, Franz Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked in insurance. He published little during his lifetime and lived his life in relative obscurity. He was forced to retire from work in 1917 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, a debilitating illness which dogged his final years. When he died in 1924 he bequeathed the – mainly unfinished – manuscripts of his novels, stories, letters and diaries to his friend the writer Max Brod with the strict instruction that they should be destroyed. Brod ignored Kafka’s wishes and organised the publication of his work, including The Trial, which appeared in 1925. It is through Brod’s efforts that Kafka is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.