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  Best British Short Stories 2016

  Nicholas Royle

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  The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.
  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.
  This new anthology includes stories by: Claire-Louise Bennett, Neil Campbell, Crista Ermiya, Stuart Evers, Trevor Fevin, David Gaffney, Janice Galloway, Jessie Greengrass, Kate Hendry, Thomas McMullan, Graham Mort, Ian Parkinson, Tony Peake, Alex Preston, Leone Ross, John Saul, Colette Sensier, Robert Sheppard, DJ Taylor, Greg Thorpe and Mark Valentine.

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  The Untroubled Mind

  Herbert J. Hall

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  A very wise physician has said that "every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it." What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients, the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot

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  Short Poetry Collection 065

  Various Various

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  LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - 19th...

  Anton Chekhov, 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. 
   
  Across far flung territories that are undergoing a forced globalization by military and Imperial means stories emerge from near and far of times that perfectly illustrate societies as they make their way through this bustling century of demands, opportunities, greed and despair.  
     
  The need for mass entertainment in a myriad of cheap periodicals and magazines brought forth wonders of word, of wit and of narrative. 
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - An Introduction 
  2 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce 
  3 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  4 - Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin 
  5 - Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
  6 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  7 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  8 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol 
  9 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  10 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  11 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

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  Summer

  Edith Wharton

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  The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royal, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel, "Ethan Frome". Only moderately well-received when originally published, "Summer" has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960's.

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  Murmurs of the Mad

  Michael Eckel

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  Turned on its head, reality’s madness becomes a comical carnival of the ridiculous with intervals of creative, contemplative verse. 
  Within this collection of short stories and poems are the musings, struggles and cynicisms of those who see the political puppetry, the diminishing resources, the infinite greed, overconsumption, and violence that exists beneath the accepted patina of contemporary society. Through the power of spoken word, atmospheric soundscapes and musical melodies, these revelations represent the wilful recognition of truth and the rejection of falsity; they are the Murmurs of the Mad.

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