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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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  Cohen of Trinity - From their...

  Amy Levy

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  Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. 
  Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms. 
  Amy’s writing career began early; her poem ‘Ida Grey’ appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories ‘Cohen of Trinity’ and ‘Wise in Their Generation,’ were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine ‘Women's World’. 
  Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; ‘Xantippe and Other Verses’, from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. ‘A Minor Poet and Other Verse’ from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems. 
  In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including ‘The Ghetto at Florence’, ‘The Jew in Fiction’, ‘Jewish Humour’ and ‘Jewish Children’. 
  That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem ‘To Vernon Lee’. 
  Her first novel ‘Romance of a Shop’, written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial. 
  Her final book of poems, ‘A London Plane-Tree’ from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism. 
  Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

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  Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor...

  Clara Venn

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Clara Venn.

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  Short Stories for Seniors - 101...

  Phillip Willis

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  Discover 101 Heartwarming and Funny Stories to Brighten Senior Lives 
  This book contains two manuscripts:Short Stories for Seniors: 51 Heartwarming Stories for Stimulating Memory, Cognition, and Relieving StressShort Stories for Elderly: 50 Funny Short Stories for Stimulating Memory, Cognition, and Relieving Stress 
  Part one of this book contains a heartwarming collection of fifty stories that are specifically tailored to bring joy and inspiration to the lives of seniors. Written with the unique perspective of those who have lived a long and fulfilling life, this part offers a poignant look at the human experience through stories that are relatable, engaging, and uplifting. 
  Part two of this book contains a delightful collection of fifty stories specifically tailored to provide stimulation for the minds of seniors. Featuring a diverse mixture of funny stories as well as uplifting anecdotes, this part will bring your elderly loved ones a renewed sense of joy and purpose. The stories are sorted into ten chapters, from family to friendship, love to loss, and humorous to uplifting. Each of the stories is carefully crafted to evoke nostalgia and spark memories from the past. Written with a unique perspective honoring the lives of senior citizens, these stories will bring out genuine smiles and lots of laughter. Whether your elderly loved one is looking for a timeless story about the importance of family, a heartfelt tale of friendship, or an uplifting anecdote that reminds them of the simple joys of life, "Short Stories for the Elderly" is sure to make them feel special.

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  Emissaries - and other short...

  Youssef Rakha

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  What might William Burroughs be doing in Tahrir Square at the height of the Egyptian revolution of 2011? Was there really a radical atheist insurgency in New Cairo? Where in extant science fiction do people go when they die? In these Cairo-focused stories written at the height of the Arab Spring, in its wake and its ruins, the reader is led by a colorful cast of characters through a hypnagogic urbanscape pulsating with the spectres of post-political Islam and failed revolution. Whether it is an alien abduction in “Lexi” or a Cairo-centered, futuristic retelling of an Old Testament narrative in the titular story “Emissaries” - the stories here play with notions of contemporary Egyptianness to evoke a human circus of possibility and despair that is undeniably universal at its core. 
  Emissaries, and other short stories is the first short story collection of Youssef Rakha's work. The short stories within this collection appeared first in the following journals: 
  The Boy Jihadi (Guernica) 
  Thus Spoke Che Nawwarah (Kenyon Review Online) 
  Emissaries (The Puritan) 
  Nawwah (Miranda Literary Magazine – defunct) 
  Qaf (Mashallah News) 
  The Secret History of Atheism (Minor Literatures) 
  A Father’s Counsel (BULL) 
  The End Night (Litro) 
  “Lexi” and “The Trees Are Houses” are published for the first time. “The Trees Are Houses” was written especially for this publication.  

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  Spanking Naughty Girls 3 - James...

  Peter Michaels

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  James spanks Evelyn and her naughty daughter Emma 
  Evelyn Harris hears that James solved Kate’s problem and she asks him to do the same for her. Emma, her daughter, has got into bad company and needs some parental guidance, but Evelyn is a single mum and finds it challenging to spank Emma when she is naughty. James comes up with an idea and Evelyn agrees to be spanked when Emma is naughty until Emma agrees she should take the spanking. Emma agrees but calls the police to accuse James of assault. Luckily James has been recording all the spanking sessions so Emma is proven to be a liar so she gets an extra spanking for that. Soon Emma agrees that she has been naughty and her behaviour improves. Evelyn eventually marries the policeman who helped solve their problem.

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