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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles W. Chesnutt

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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 the American continent African Americans have never achieved equal status.  Civil war, societal upheavals white ignorance have still left many at the bottom of the heap. For them the American dream is just that, a long way from real life.  Yet these authors are unafraid to spell out their lives for future generations, it is a powerful legacy.  Hope endures. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The African American Short Story - An Introduction 
  2 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  3 - The Grist in the Mill by Wallace Thurman 
  4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  5 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child 
  6 - Two Offers by Frances W Harper 
  7 - The Wife of His Youth by Charles W Chesnutt 
  8 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher 
  9 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins 
  10 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening 
  11 - The Black Vampyre by Uriah Derick D'Arcy

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  The Man in the Fur Coat

  J.S. Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.'The Man in the Fur Coat' is a fast-paced adventure in which a young journalist on the verge of destitution is picked out of the crowd by a well-dressed stranger in a fur coat. The wealthy man has a very strange proposition for the young writer. But first he must perform a bizarre treasure hunt through London collecting clues from mysterious strangers. Eventually he finds the meaning of the whole weird tale...and it is stranger than he could ever have imagined.

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  New West - Hill Country - Act 1...

  Seamus John

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  The year is 2083. The global population has been decimated by the final flu. The United States - not united for a long time - is no more. New lines have been drawn. Five divided nations stand. The story begins in one nation, the New West, which is much like the Old West. A harsh landscape and a society without technology, laws or base human agreements to guide us. Here in the New West, three lives intertwine in a quest for meaning, pleasure and power. 
  A Will to Meaning follows Sheriff John Newman in his quest for meaning in the heart of the wild Comanche empire, turned thriving Texas Hill Country, turned desolate and violent and ruthless once more.

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  Australian Christmas Yarns -...

  Mary Grant Bruce, Ian Bruce

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  This collection of short stories by notable Australian author, Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958), reflects on Australian experiences of summertime. Infused with the smells, sounds and textures of Australian life during the Christmas season, these stories also highlight the strengths and yearnings of their characters. This unique collection includes a foreword by Ian Bruce, grandson of Mary Grant Bruce, and includes the following six stories: 
    
  * A Gentleman by Accident 
  * An Australian Christmas 
  * Home for Christmas 
  * Our Christmas Eve 
  * Christmas at Henderson's 
  * The Valley of Forgetfulness 
  Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958) was an Australian author, many of whose writings focused on iconic Australian life. As well as publishing thirty-seven books, Mary Grant Bruce wrote regularly for Australian newspapers, often for children. Her most well known works are the books in the Billabong series. See www.marygrantbruce.com.au

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  Cake Time - A Novel-in-Stories

  Siel Ju

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  A “compelling” work of fiction that follows a woman’s relationships through the years and asks why intelligent girls make terrible choices (Edan Lepucki, New York Times–bestselling author of California). Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In “How Not to Have an Abortion,” the teenaged narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In “Easy Target,” the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers’ party with a handsome stranger. A decade later, in “Glow,” she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover’s secret daughter. Ultimately, this unflinching novel-in-stories grapples with urgent, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world, and how to love madly without losing a sense of self.   “A young woman explores the dangerous, voyeuristic, and violent undertones of her sexual encounters . . . a strong, nimble voice . . . a brave and unapologetically bold new writer.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A delicious indulgence . . . Treat yourself to its dark, seductive intimacies and savor the gritty sugar of its unsentimental humor.” —Jillian Lauren, New York Times–bestselling author of Some Girls   “These complex, flawed, and real characters live in our current world, with all its confusions and opportunity to connect—or disconnect.”—Edan Lepucki, New York Times-bestselling author of CaliforniaWinner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Award

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Joseph Conrad, Leonid...

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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. 
   
  A new century dawns, but old suffocating ideas live on.  Society seems wary of change until it is forced upon it.  But Europe’s authors seem to have no fear.  They move in relentless pursuit with an energy that must at some near future point challenge everything.   The World begins it short march to catastrophe. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1900's - The Europeans - An Introduction 
  2 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 
  3 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev 
  4 - Tomato Sauce by Hanns Heinz Ewers 
  5 - Putois by Anatole France 
  6 - The Devil's Horse by Ion Luca Caragiale 
  7 - How Treason Came to Russia by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  8 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov 
  9 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory 
  10 - A Dry Spell by Eimar H Kvaran 
  11 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  12 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy

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