The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The English Men: The top ten short stories written from 1800 - 1899 by English male authors

Written by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by Ian Holm

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.

The decades of this century see authors of every hue and talent assemble vast realms of fabulous literature that entertain the global audience then and to revisit now. Genres explode across the landscape. Genius in every name.

1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The English Men - An Introduction

2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling

4 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

5 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells

6 - The Grave by the Handpost by Thomas Hardy

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

8 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray

9 - Lost Hearts by M R James

10 - Father Giles Of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope

11 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

12 - My Astral Body by Anthony Hope

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803545523

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.