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    The Top 10 Short Stories - The Twist: The top ten short house stories with a twist of all time
    The Top 10 Short Stories - The Twist: The top ten short house stories with a twist of all time
    The Top 10 Short Stories - The Twist: The top ten short house stories with a twist of all time
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    The Top 10 Short Stories - The Twist: The top ten short house stories with a twist of all time

    By Kate Chopin, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol and Ambrose Bierce

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    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.

    In this volume we enjoy a favourite device of authors; the story is heading one way and suddenly twists in another direction entirely. In the pens of Ambrose Bierce, Nikolai Gogol, Saki and a host of others where you end up is the very question they propose.

    01 - The Top 10 - The Twist - An Introduction

    02 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

    03 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

    04 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

    05 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield

    06 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry

    07 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

    08 - Man Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit

    09 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

    10 - The Open Window by Saki

    11 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTop 10 Publishing
    Release dateMar 3, 2023
    ISBN9781803548241
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    Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904), was an American writer of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. Chopin is best known for her novel The Awakening, and for her short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Of French and Irish descent, her work depicted the various ethnic groups of Louisiana, especially of Creoles, with sensitivity and wit, and featured vivid descriptions of the natural environment there. After her husband died in 1882 and left her $42,000 in debt, Chopin took up writing to support her family of six children. Though popular, her serious literary qualities were overlooked in her day, and she is now seen as an important early American feminist writer.

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