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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles Dickens

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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 small corner of England, just across from Europe, some of England’s finest literary talent was born, raised and created short stories that still thrill the soul and ravish the brain with a verve and talent that is second to none.  In their words true genius is often found. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - English Authors of the South-East - An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H G Wells 
  4 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  5 - The Death Room by Edgar Wallace 
  6 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn 
  7 - Pink Flannel by Ford Maddox Ford 
  8 - Sophy Mason Comes Back by E M Delafield 
  9 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 
  10 - Freckles by William Pett Ridge 
  11 - Frida, or The Lover's Leap, A Legend of the West Country by R D Blackmore

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  First Words - Earliest Writing...

  Paul Mandelbaum

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  Many kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before there was Carrie, there was " Johnathan and the Witchs." And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? These young writers are the same people who dominated the best seller lists and occupy the most celebrated spots on bookshelves in our stores, libraries, and homes. Here is a funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by celebrated writers— authors who were amused by and happy to share their own early efforts.
  
  
  • Kevin McCarthy reads Allan Gurganus
  
  • Judith Ivey reads Margaret Atwood
  
  • Andre Braugher reads Amiri Baraka
  
  • Alfre Woodward reads Gloria Naylor
  
  • Elliott Gould reads Pat Conroy
  
  • Susan Anspach reads Joyce Carol Oates
  
  • Roger Rees reads Gore Vidal
  
  • Daphne Zuniga reads Susan Minot
  
  • Nana Visitor reads Ursula K. Le Guin
  
  • Kevin McCarthy reads John Hersey
  
  • Melissa Manchester reads Rita Dove
  
  • Elliott Gould reads Stephen King
  
  • Amy Tan reads Amy Tan
  
  • David Ackroyd reads Norman Mailer
  
  • Joel Grey reads Paul Bowles
  
  • Maxine Hong Kingston reads Maxine Hong Kingston
  
  • Arte Johnson reads Roy Blount Jr.
  
  • Andre Braugher reads Charles Johnson
  
  • Roger Rees reads William Styron
  
  • Harvey Fierstein reads Stanley Elkin
  
  • Samantha Eggar reads Madeleine L' Engle
  
  • David Ackroyd reads Louis Auchincloss
  
  • Jeff Fahey reads Fred Chappell
  
  • Harvey Fierstein reads Tobias Wolff
  
  • Tim Matheson reads W.P. Kinsella
  
  • Jean Smart reads Gail Godwin
  
  • Jeff Fahey reads Stephen Dixon
  
  • Andre Braugher reads Vance Bourjaily
  
  • Elliott Gould reads John Updike
  
  
  Kevin McCarthy reads Allan Gurganus
  
  
  Judith Ivey reads Margaret Atwood
  
  
  Andre Braugher reads Amiri Baraka
  
  
  Alfre Woodward reads Gloria Naylor
  
  
  Elliott Gould reads Pat Conroy
  
  
  Susan Anspach reads Joyce Carol Oates
  
  
  Roger Rees reads Gore Vidal
  
  
  Daphne Zuniga reads Susan Minot
  
  
  Nana Visitor reads Ursula K. Le Guin
  
  
  Kevin McCarthy reads John Hersey
  
  
  Melissa Manchester reads Rita Dove
  
  
  Elliott Gould reads Stephen King
  
  
  Amy Tan reads Amy Tan
  
  
  David Ackroyd reads Norman Mailer
  
  
  Joel Grey reads Paul Bowles
  
  
  Maxine Hong Kingston reads Maxine Hong Kingston
  
  
  Arte Johnson reads Roy Blount Jr.
  
  
  Andre Braugher reads Charles Johnson
  
  
  Roger Rees reads William Styron
  
  
  Harvey Fierstein reads Stanley Elkin
  
  
  Samantha Eggar reads Madeleine L' Engle
  
  
  David Ackroyd reads Louis Auchincloss
  
  
  Jeff Fahey reads Fred Chappell
  
  
  Harvey Fierstein reads Tobias Wolff
  
  
  Tim Matheson reads W.P. Kinsella
  
  
  Jean Smart reads Gail Godwin
  
  
  Jeff Fahey reads Stephen Dixon
  
  
  Andre Braugher reads Vance Bourjaily
  
  
  Elliott Gould reads John Updike

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  Safe Enough - And Other Stories

  Lee Child

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  Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected 
   
   
   
  For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, this collection shows the author's mastery of the short form. 
   
   
   
  In "Ten Keys," a drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger. A rookie cop in "Normal in Every Way" is assigned to the department's file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he's outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent. A killer preys on other killers. Taken together, these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are expertly crafted, piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark.

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  A Middle-Sized Artist - From...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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  Hearts and Bones - Love Songs...

  Niamh Mulvey

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  'Vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted’ - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent' - Joseph O'Connor, author of ShadowplayHearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it.A young woman learns to wield her power, leaving casualties in her wake, while a man from a small town finds solace in a strange new hobby. A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world.First-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did.Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey's debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we’ve brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.'Highly accomplished, inventive . . . what stands out is Mulvey's command of her own originality' - Irish Times'Honest, daringly fresh and stunningly written, these stories cut right to the very essence of what it means to be young’ - Jan Carson, author of The Raptures

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  The Yellow Wallpaper

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  A woman suffering from postpartum depression is confined to a room by her overbearing physician husband for a "rest cure." Isolated and bored, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the grotesque yellow wallpaper in her room.

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