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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Men...

  James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Arnold...

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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 decade of catastrophic worldwide war.  Empires in tectonic collision, a society heaving under the yoke, tired of sacrifice, ready for revolution.  In literature ideas were explored and detailed revealing a world and people that seem so long ago but also very near. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Men - 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 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  6 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 
  7 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 
  8 - Casting the Runes by M R James 
  9 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 
  12 - August Heat by W F Harvey

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  Harpers Heroes - A gripping...

  Rosie Clarke

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  From the bestselling author of the Welcome to Harpers Emporium and The Mulberry Lane Series.The Harpers Girls come face to face with the harsh reality of the cruelty of war. 
  Oxford Street, London 1915 Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days of the war, whilst husband Ben is working all hours for the War Office. Beth Burrow is fighting concern for her husband Jack, now at sea with the Merchant Navy, and the fear she may never see him again and be blessed with a child. Driven to exhaustion, Maggie Gibbs, is now working as a nursing assistant on the battlefields in France. With the everyday horrors of the casualties of war to contend with she suffers her own personal tragedy when her fiancé's plane ditches in the sea.Can the Harpers Girls and their loved ones survive the perils of war and find a path to future happiness? A heart-warming saga following the lives, loves and losses of the Harpers Girls. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Pam Howes and Dilly Court.What readers are saying about  Harpers Heroes:  
  'Hopefully there will be a further sequel so that we can find out what happens next!''A great read can't wait for the next in this series unable to put it down not to be unexpected with this author.''Loved everything about this book. Please say there is going to be another one, otherwise I will be left in suspense not knowing what happened to the Harper's Girls!'

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  History of Tom Jones a Foundling...

  Henry Fielding

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  A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.BOOK 18: We are now, reader, arrived at the last stage of our long journey. As we have, therefore, travelled together through so many pages, let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach, who have passed several days in the company of each other; and who, notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road, generally make all up at last, and mount, for the last time, into their vehicle with chearfulness and good humour; since after this one stage, it may possibly happen to us, as it commonly happens to them, never to meet more.

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  Montezuma's Castle and Other...

  Charles B. Cory

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  This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced in these pages, a fine storyteller to boot. (Summary by A. Gramour)

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  The Dead

  James Joyce

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  The Dead is the final story from 'The Dubliners' and perhaps the most popular of James Joyce's shorter works.

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  The Victory Club

  Robin Lee Hatcher

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  Christy and RITA Award-winner Robin Lee Hatcher  pens the moving stories of four women working in Boise,  Idaho during World War II. Margo King fears for her son  fighting on the North African front and tries to hide her  painful past. Dotty King searches for forgiveness from her  mother and God after committing a single ardent mistake.  Lucy Anderson struggles to resist temptation while her  husband is away in England. And Penelope Maxfield longs  for a new life free from her husband and children. Told  from each woman’s perspective, this story chronicles the hardships and uncertain  times they all try to overcome with the help of their faith.

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