The Top 10 Short Stories - Mens 20th Century American: The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by American male authors

Written by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft and 7 more

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow and Richard Mitchley

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 century of incredible chaos, the globe of Nations have undergone many changes. The world has become a very different place to former times. Its authors too have placed these tumultuous changes into stories which sparkle with purpose, with ambition and the ability to share.

1 - The Top 10 - The 20th Century - The American Men - An Introduction

2 - The Great Good Place by Henry James

3 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald

4 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry

5 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft

6 - To Build a Fire by Jack London

7 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain

8 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

9 - The Great Slave by Zane Grey

10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson

11 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Feb 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541754

Henry James

Henry James was born in New York in 1843, the younger brother of the philosopher William James, and was educated in Europe and America. He left Harvard Law School in 1863, after a year's attendance, to concentrate on writing, and from 1869 he began to make prolonged visits to Europe, eventually settling in England in 1876. His literary output was both prodigious and of the highest quality: more than ten outstanding novels including his masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady; countless novellas and short stories; as well as innumerable essays, letters, and other pieces of critical prose. Known by contemporary fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in Kensington, London, in 1916.