Short Stories About Rivalry: How far will people go to beat the competition?

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Saki and 9 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf and Christopher Ragland

Rivals may start out as friends. Even friends like a bit of rivalry at times, it might spur them on to achieve more themselves. It might also bring out the worst of us as competition turns into more negative vices. In this volume such vaulted authors as Louisa May Alcott, F Scott Fitzgerald, Guy de Maupassant, and a host of literary giants bring this unsettling genre into sharp focus. Genius in every name.

1 - Short Stories About Rivalry - An Introduction

2 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald

3 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

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

5 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad

6 - The Power of Darkness by Edith Nesbit

7 - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane

8 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore

9 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki

10 - The Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant

11 - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott

12 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards

13 - The Iliad of Sandy Bar by Bret Harte

14 - The Bull by Saki

15 - The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

16 - Dethroned by I N Potapenko

17 - From The Dead by Edith Nesbit

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835479032

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, the quintessential tale of the decadence and overindulgence of the Jazz Age. Born into an upper middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised in New York. After dropping out of Princeton University in 1917 to join the Army, he was stationed in Alabama, where he met wealthy socialite Zelda Sayre. It was only after he achieved moderate success with his debut novel This Side of Paradise that Zelda agreed to marry him. His second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, propelled him to literary stardom, the volatile nature of which inspired his best-known work The Great Gatsby. Though it met with mixed reviews in Fitzgerald’s lifetime, The Great Gatsby is now considered by some literary scholars to be the “Great American Novel.” Haunted by alcoholism, declining popularity, and financial difficulties well into the 1930s, Fitzgerald died in 1940. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously in 1941.