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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Men...

  Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy,...

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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. 
   
  This decade is resplendent with literature and its many prodigiously talented authors who write on as varied a range of subjects as might be thought possible. Yet each is studded with careful literary precision and narrative verve.  It is a remarkable decade. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1880's - The Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Horla by Guy de Maupassant 
  3 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  4 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  5 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  6 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  7 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  8 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 
  9 - A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce 
  10 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  11 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 
  12 - The Signal by Vsevolod Garshin

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  Swept and Garnished

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Swept and Garnished is a horrifying ghost story written shortly after the outbreak of the First World War.  
  It is set against the background of German atrocities and massacres in France in which there was significant loss of civilian life. It tells the tale of a stereotypical old German lady in Berlin who is haunted by an eerie group of murdered French children.

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  Adventure of the Engineer's...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1892. Dr. Watson notes that this is one of only two cases which he personally brought to the attention of Sherlock Holmes. The story, set in 1889, mainly consists of a young London consultant hydraulic engineer, Mr. Victor Hatherley, recounting strange happenings of the night before, first to Dr. Watson, who dresses the stump where Mr. Hatherley's thumb has been cut off, and then to Sherlock Holmes himself.

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  The Tell-Tale Heart

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is celebrated for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of his most famous. In it the narrator tells how, without any motive, but merely because he is obsessed with his eye (“The eye of a vulture”), he murders an old man, and of the consequences when the murdered man's heart seeks revenge.

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  Просвечивающие предметы

  Владимир Набоков

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  В книгу включены два романа русско-американского писателя Владимира 
  Набокова, созданные в "послесиринский», англоязычный период его 
  творчества. В "Истинной жизни Себастьяна Найта» (1941) рассказчик, 
  поименованный инициалом В., в попытках сочинить биографию своего 
  сводного брата, покойного писателя, попадает в Зазеркалье 
  художественного вымысла, заставляющее усомниться и в личности биографа, и
   в смерти заглавного героя. В романе "Просвечивающие предметы» (1972) 
  герой-повествователь, сотрудник издательской фирмы Хью Персон, 
  обладающий способностью "проницать» прошлое, оказывается действующим 
  лицом произведений некоего писателя R. (пародийного двойника Владимира 
  Набокова), корректором которых он является. Разделенные тремя 
  десятилетиями, "Истинная жизнь Себастьяна Найта» и "Просвечивающие 
  предметы» связаны друг с другом темой литературного творчества и 
  двойственным, обманчиво-ускользающим устройством авторской 
  художественной Вселенной.

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  Our Mutual Friend - Book the...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.BOOK THE FOURTH: A TURNING: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass.

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