The Top 10 Short Stories - Men 1910s: The top ten Short Stories of the 1910's written by male authors

Written by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Arnold Bennett and 7 more

Narrated by Jim Norton, Richard Mitchley and Mark Rice-Oxley

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.

A decade of catastrophic worldwide war. Empires in tectonic collision, a society heaving under the yoke, tired of sacrifice, ready for revolution. In literature ideas were explored and detailed revealing a world and people that seem so long ago but also very near.

1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Men - An Introduction

2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce

3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce

4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

5 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro

6 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence

7 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev

8 - Casting the Runes by M R James

9 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson

11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

12 - August Heat by W F Harvey

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Feb 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541716

James Joyce

James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He came from a reasonably wealthy family which, predominantly because of the recklessness of Joyce's father John, was soon plunged into financial hardship. The young Joyce attended Clongowes College, Belvedere College and, eventually, University College, Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, and eloped with her to Croatia. From this point until the end of his life, Joyce lived as an exile, moving from Trieste to Rome, and then to Zurich and Paris. His major works are Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941, by which time he had come to be regarded as one of the greatest novelists the world ever produced.