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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Edgar...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The top 10 short stories of all time written by Edgar Allan Poe. 
   
  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. 
   
  Among those we call the dark masters, one name glimmers with a more ready menace: Edgar Allan Poe who can, in an instant, unleash and surround our fears with unspeakable torment. His words also bring careful consideration as his detective stories reveal the hidden clues.  Whatever the genre Poe is almost unrivalled in both story and solution. 
  1 - The Top 10 - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  2 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - By the Facts in the Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 
  8 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  11 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Jeune Premier

  Anton Chekhov

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  "The First Lover" is a famous story by Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The main character, Evgeny Alekseevich Podzharov, tells the guests a story about his love adventure. However, the story causes slight bewilderment and makes one of the listeners blush...

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  The Woodlanders

  Thomas Hardy

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  In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider. Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both beautiful and treacherous.
  The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy's acute awareness of his era's most troubling dilemmas.

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  Study in Scarlet A (Unabridged)

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

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  Wired Love - A Romance of Dots...

  Ella Cheever Thayer

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  Written in the 1800s by Ella Cheever Thayer, “Wired Love” became a best seller for ten years, and this blind love story is as relevant today in the age of online dating as it was during a time before the household telephone. Can two operators in distant telegraph offices find love through “the wire”? Will sparks fly? Find out in this sweet, farcical, and “wired” romance!

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  The Leavenworth Case

  Anna Katharine Green

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  Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the community and reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit his fortune at his death.  
   
  As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just occurred: Leavenworth has been shot to death, and circumstances point to one of his young wards. But is that the trail to follow?  
   
  This classic mystery novel—a tribute to Anna Katharine Green's exceptional plotting and legal accuracy—was famously put to use by Yale University's law school to demonstrate the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.

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