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  Classic Short Stories - Volume...

  Edgar Allan Poe, D H Lawrence,...

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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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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  The Secret Order of the Orchid -...

  Randle Crews

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  In eighteenth-century France, the mysterious death of one of the clergies is soon followed by the disappearance of another. It quickly becomes apparent that something sinister has invaded their monastery, and only a former cleric from Avignon can solve the mystery of the missing monks. Shortly into his investigation, he discovers that the truth behind the sudden tragic events is much more diabolical than he could have ever imagined.

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  Tales of Old Japan

  Lord Redesdale

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  Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book is regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  In Good Hours with Frost

  Damini Rathore

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  Frost is just an ordinary person with a beautiful power of expression. This book is not just about her journey through depression but a lot more other things like societal conditioning, love, attention, abandonment etc. She effortlessly takes you along in an instance onto an engaging one-go read. It is in the form of a monologue with several poems woven into a short story. It contains poems with striking similarity and relevance, about each one of us and our lives, about complexities in all their simple sense and poems that will make you revisit them again.

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  Ladies Dancing (short story)...

  Stuart MacBride

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  Ninth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  Kayleigh’s a professional. But lap-dancing has rules. And when someone breaks the rules… 
  Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, delivers a narrative that is both humorous and thrilling. Ladies Dancing is a top-notch addition to the hard-boiled detective genre, filled with mystery and black humour. 
  For fans of Ian Rankin (Standing in Another Man's Grave), Mark Billingham (The Last Dance), and Michael Connelly (The Dark Hours).

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