The Top 10 Short Stories - The English. Born Abroad: The top ten Short Stories of all time written by English authors born abroad
Written by Joseph Conrad, Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro, Baroness Emmuska Orczy and
Narrated by Richard, David Shaw Parker and Mark Rice-Oxley
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About this audiobook
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.
It may well be that Empire has raised generations of its Nation’s kin abroad. And some, born abroad, adopted England as their home in preference to their own. For both this lure of ‘Home’ has nourished their ambition whilst all around them stories are to be found that they, with their unique outsider’s view, can create and deliver to our ears their literary masterpieces.
1 - The Top 10 - The English. Born Abroad - An Introduction
2 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad
3 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro
4 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling
5 - Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole
6 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray
7 - The Story of the RipplingTrain by Mary Louisa Molesworth
8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
9 - A Little Holiday by Oswald Sickert
10 - A Resurrection by H B Marriott Watson
11 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
12 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in the Ukraine on 3rd December 1857. He grew up surrounded by upheaval. His father was exiled to northern Russia for political activities and although they eventually returned to Poland, Conrad was orphaned by the age of 11. Subsequently he was taught by his uncle, a great influence and mentor. Leaving for Marseilles in 1874, Conrad began his training as a seaman. After an attempt at suicide, Conrad joined the British merchant navy and became a British subject in 1886. After his first novel, Almayer's Folly was published in 1895 he left the sea behind and settled down to a life of writing. Indeed, as his wife wrote in 1927, he would move only "from his table to his bed, for days and days on end". Troubled financially for many years, he faced uncomplimentary critics and an indifferent public. He finally became a popular success with Chance (1913). By the end of his life on 3rd August 1924 his status as one of the great writers of his time was assured.
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