The Top 10 Short Stories - The 20th Century - The English Men: The top ten Short Stories of all the 20th Century written by English male authors

Written by Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Algernon Blackwood and 8 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.

The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

01 - The 20th Century - The English Men - An Introduction

02 - They by Rudyard Kipling

03 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence

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

05 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

06 - The Juryman by John Galsworthy

07 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood

08 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne

09 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

10 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James

11 - August Heat by W F Harvey

12 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541822

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.