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Publisher: Hesperus Press
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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. Invariably Jerome is most often remembered for his light-hearted and humourous works such as ‘Three Men in a Boat’. Here we have a number of his beautifully lyrical short stories and some from his forgotten, and rather darker side. 01 - The Top 10 - Jerome K Jerome - An Introduction 02 - Told After Supper - The Doctor's Story by Jerome K Jerome 03 - The Curate's Story - My Uncle's Story - My Own Story by Jerome K Jerome 04 - Told After Supper - The Wisdom Of Uncle Podger by Jerome K Jerome 05 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 06 - The Man of Science by Jerome K Jerome 07 - The Man Who Went Wrong by Jerome K Jerome 08 - The Cost of Kindness by Jerome K Jerome 09 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 10 - The Minor Poets Story by Jerome J Jerome 11 - The Lesson by Jerome K JeromeShow book
A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party.The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love.Show book
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare.With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture, and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period. The play features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted lines, "All the world's a stage", and has been adapted many times for radio, film, and musical theatre.Show book
Prince Rohan, a handsome prince who was cursed by a ruthless witch, and on the day of his coronation, Prince Rohan turned to a hideous creature, a monster covered with horns and fur. After the magicians failed to revive his handsome appearance, the prince creature abandoned his rightful place at king Mile's fortress and went to live in the forest where he met Tilda, the witch's daughter and fell in love not knowing that she was the witch's daughter. The witch who cursed him. They said true love will break the curse, or so they thought.Show book
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.Show book
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft is a semi-fictional autobiographical work by George Gissing in which the author casts himself as the editor of the diary of a deceased acquaintance, selecting essays for posthumous publication. Observing "how suitable many of the reflections were to the month with which they were dated", he explains that he "hit upon the thought of dividing the little book into four chapters, named after the seasons".Show book
