Dear Diary - A Short Story Collection: Our most intimate secrets laid bare

Written by Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barry Pain and 6 more

Narrated by Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley and Liza Ross

The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records.

Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world.

For most people the diary is a way to record the milestones of life; a birthday, a new love, the passing of someone as well as the minutiae of everyday life that seems worth passing into written memory.

It may be a daily task, or an occasional flurry of words whenever it’s deemed necessary yet, apart from politicians and celebrities, these pages are never really shared. The truth they hold is personal to the writer, and others are not privy to its contents.

With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters who lives seemed dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives.

1 - Dear Diary - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction

2 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy

3 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain

5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain

6 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov

7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle

8 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

9 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol

10 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835477045

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in Tula, near Moscow. His parents, who both died when he was young, belonged to the Russian nobility, and to the end of his life Tolstoy remained conscious of his aristocratic status. His novels, ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ are literary classics and he is revered as one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He died in 1910 at the age of 82.