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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Jonathan Swift

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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 century of literature reveals bold strides in the art of story telling.  Characters and narratives begin a wonderful journey that express themselves on a wider canvas, a more global landscape.  The people and the societies they represent are easily recognisable in our more modern times. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 18th Century - An Introduction 
  2 - Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift 
  3 - Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire 
  4 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  5 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  6 - The Female Husband by Henry Fielding 
  7 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth 
  8 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller 
  9 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
  10 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More 
  11 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood 
  12 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood

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  Is Academia Suffering From...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Juggling multiple part-time jobs, earning little-to-no benefits, depending on public assistance: This is the financial reality for many adjunct professors across the nation. Economics correspondent Paul Solman looks for the origins of this growing employment trend at colleges and universities.

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  En el pueblo hay una casa...

  Vladimir Rivera Órdenes

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  Surcos del territorio es una colección de crónicas literarias que narran la experiencia de crecer en algún pueblo o ciudad de la provincia.
  Cada libro es una exploración por los intersticios de la infancia y, al mismo tiempo, una radiografía sentimental, histórica y política de los lugares respectivos, lejana a los edulcorados constructos turísticos o gubernamentales.
  
  En este libro el autor —nacido en enero de 1973— reconstruye el pulso y los claroscuros de Parral durante la dictadura, los ochenta y los noventa cuando sucedieron las primeras investigaciones sobre los horrores de Colonia Dignidad —enclave cercano al pueblo— y, al mismo tiempo, la búsqueda judicial de cuerpos de detenidos desaparecidos en la zona: entre ellos su padre, líder territorial de lazona durante la Unidad Popular y fundador de una toma de terrenos hoy vigente como una población cercana a la línea del tren. El relato está construido desde un prisma íntimo, sentimental, emotivo, pero también crítico con el devenir político de la transición y las esperanzas truncadas de una sociedad más comunitaria.
  
  "No hubo nadie en ese tiempo que le dijera a él que eso no era cierto. Que ni su padre era terrorista ni que en su sangre estaba el mal. Por esas extrañas razones que tiene la conciencia, encontró que su padre era culpable, culpable de un delito imperdonable: abandonar a sus hijos. Dejarlos a la intemperie de la selva en un pueblo perdido, pobres, ateridos, con los lobos devorando los sueños, los anhelos. A veces soñaba con ser fuerte, salir al recreo y enfrentarlos. Decirle en sus caras: 'Mi padre fue un héroe'".
  
  Vladimir Rivera Órdenes (Parral / 1973).
  Guionista, narrador y profesor. En narrativa ha publicado los libros Qué sabe Peter Holder de amor (Premio a Mejor Obra Literaria Cuentos 2013), Juegos florales y Yo soy un pájaro ahora (finalista Premio Municipal de Literatura 2019). En literatura infantil ha escrito
  los libros El gato que nos ilumina, La vida secreta de los números y Los palacios interiores (Premio Marta Brunet a Mejor Libro Infantil 2020).
  
   

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  Haig's Medical Officer - The...

  Eugene Ryan

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  Despite countless conflicting assessments, Field Marshal Douglas Haig remains one of the most controversial and fascinating characters in British military history. To some he was a mindless butcher, to others a true patriot who masterminded Allied victory in the First World War under the most trying circumstances.The papers of Colonel Eugene 'Micky' Ryan, Haig's long serving doctor and confidant, are a significant find as they throw fresh and invaluable light on the life and character of this enigmatic man. Ryan studied medicine at Cork and Edinburgh. He was commissioned into the RAMC in 1901 and saw active service in South Africa. He first met Haig in 1912 and became Medical Officer to Haig's HQ 1st Corps in 1914 and moved with him to 1st Army that December. Ryan saw service commanding two Casualty Clearing Stations before being appointed Medical Officer to the C in C (Haig) in September 1916.Haig's and Ryan's relationship, while primarily professional, blossomed into a friendship of mutual respect and trust which lasted until Haig's death in 1928. Ryan delivered the Haigs' long awaited heir, Dawyck, in 1918 and advised during Dorothy Haig's illness in 1926.Fortunately Ryan kept meticulous diaries which, written from such a unique viewpoint and with constant reference to Haig and his family, are of historical importance: the Foreword, written by Professor Gary Sheffield  a leading authority on Haig's life and work, attests to their significance.As seen in Britain at War Magazine, January 2014

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  I'll Take That One - An...

  Kitty Baxter

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  A UNIQUE AND PERSONAL MEMOIR OF A FAMILY THAT WAS CHANGED FOREVER BY THE SECOND WORLD WARKitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. War broke out just as Kitty turned nine and she became one of thousands of children evacuated to the countryside. This would be the first of three times that she was rehoused far from home over the course of the war. Sometimes treated more like a servant than a small child, Kitty endured gruelling years cut off from her parents rather than a safe haven from war. She recalls her experiences living with strangers' families in environments radically different to working-class London and how she navigated joyful moments and times of struggle and loss.One of the last generation of women from this era, Kitty's voice remains as whip-smart as her irrepressible nine-year-old self who triumphed over the adversity of a most unusual childhood.

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  The Call of Cthulhu

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in "Weird Tales", February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

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