The Top 10 Short Stories - Born in London: The top ten short stories of all time written by authors born in London.

Written by Anthony Trollope, G.K. Chesterton, Algernon Blackwood and 7 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Jake Urry

The Top 10 – Born in London – An Introduction

The teeming metropolis of London has a long history of innovation. Amongst its most gilded are the literary talents of its world-famous authors. From Anthony Trollope and Daniel Defoe to Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and many others, have come iconic works that still to this day underpin our culture.

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.

1 - The Top 10 - Born in London - An Introdction

2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton

3 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy

4 - Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy

5 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf

6 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope

7 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe

8 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace

9 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood

10 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

11 - The Sexton's Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell

12 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541020

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures. After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels. The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.