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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Luigi...

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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. 
   
  In this volume we examine a decade of tumult and upheaval for the continent and its Empires as both countries and social classes tense under insoluble issues.  All at once Europe is engulfed in slaughter and overwhelmed by fighting.  Its authors use their pens both to help enlighten and to provide some scant strands of escape in these most demanding of times.   
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Europeans - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
  3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
  4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  5 - Sicilian Limes by Luigi Pirandello 
  6 - The Garden of the Holy Virgin by Alexander Kuprin 
  7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  8 - Son by Ivan Bunin 
  9 - The Marseillaise by Leonid Andreyev 
  10 - Dethroned by I N Potapenko 
  11 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  12 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 1 by Aleister Crowley 
  13 - The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Part 2 by Aleister Crowley

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  Dragon of the Sea

  Kristie Clark

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  Discover the Caribbean's ancient sea dragon and the origins of the gold treasure she guards. 
  After losing his place in Queen Isabella’s court, Fernando, the illegitimate teenage son of Christopher Columbus, embarks on a journey with his adopted Taíno brother Diego to the West Indies where they encounter the ancient sea dragon. And when Fernando witnesses the blood the colonists shed for gold, he decides he must courageously document these atrocities before the Taíno people are gone forever. 
  Will the young Fernando, a lover of books, use his quill and journal as a brave knight might use a sword and shield? 
  Dragon of the Sea is a standalone historical fiction short story, and also serves as the historical prologue to the contemporary Sci-Fi Thrillers Killing Dragons, Dragon Gold, and Dragon Clan. Dragon of the Sea is book zero in the Order of the Dolphin book series by Kristie Clark. It may be read in any order with other books in the Order of the Dolphin series. 
  Dragon of the Sea won a Finalist Award for the Chanticleer Short Story Awards in the Chaucer category.

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  The Death of Ivan Ilyich

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Hailed as a masterpiece on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.
  
  How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
  
  This novella was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
  
  A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

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  Her Turn

  D H Lawrence

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  'Her Turn' was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters he knew intimately. The scene can hardly be called a story in the traditional sense, being the altercation between a miner and his wife over the sharing of strike pay.  Lawrence keeps the story light-hearted, almost comical but the tensions of married life in hard times are just below the surface.

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  The Whale - (or Moby Dick)

  Herman Melville

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  "Moby Dick" (or "The Whale" as it was one known) is the unforgettable story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg.  The quest and the novel is a story of how man can become blindly obsessed.  The tale is also a testament to democracy and liberation, as the ship's crew work together for a common end. 
  Ishmael, the novel’s narrator is a young, ordinary sailor learning the practice of whaling. 
  Moby Dick is one of the greatest novels ever written and a timeless classic.

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  It's A Fallen World

  Jack Webb

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  'It’s a Fallen World!' is a very unusual audiobook. Here you will find four flash fiction audio stories. Each story is only about seven minutes long. They are brought vividly to life with immersive, cinematic sound effects. For the full experience, please use personal listening devices. 
  This collection is perfect for the short Uber commute, a waiting room or wherever and whenever you need a break from the everyday boring reality. 
  This is darkly comedic satire at its best! It blends science fiction and spirituality with the absurd patterns of human behavior that we all notice but may not want to talk about. These stories dissolve the line between accepted reality and your imagination. 
  Sharp and unsettling yet strangely beautiful, It’s a Fallen World! invites you to step safely into the places your mind already wants to go. Once experienced, these stories call listeners back again and again to where reality meets the end of the road and the real truth is revealed.

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