The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1900's - The Europeans: The ten best stories written from 1900-1909 by European authors

Written by Joseph Conrad, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev, Hanns Heinz Ewers and 7 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw Parker 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 new century dawns, but old suffocating ideas live on. Society seems wary of change until it is forced upon it. But Europe’s authors seem to have no fear. They move in relentless pursuit with an energy that must at some near future point challenge everything. The World begins it short march to catastrophe.

1 - The Top 10 - The 1900's - The Europeans - An Introduction

2 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad

3 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev

4 - Tomato Sauce by Hanns Heinz Ewers

5 - Putois by Anatole France

6 - The Devil's Horse by Ion Luca Caragiale

7 - How Treason Came to Russia by Rainer Maria Rilke

8 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov

9 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory

10 - A Dry Spell by Eimar H Kvaran

11 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy

12 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835478370

Joseph Conrad

Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad’s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad’s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad’s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.