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  Burns & Allen Show Collection...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  When real life husband and wife George Burns and Gracie Allen worked together in vaudeville, George was the comic and his wife Gracie had the straight lines. They switched their roles upon discovering that Gracie's delivery got a bigger laugh than George's punch lines.The duo became a big hit on vaudeville and in films so when radio beckoned, they delivered. Their first regular radio work was as supporting players on CBS's The Guy Lombardo Show in the 1930s. When Lombardo switched to NBC, George and Gracie took over the show. Early on, the two did not play a married couple on the air. For a long time, they continued a 'flirtation act' with George as Gracie's most persistent suitor.But when the show's ratings began to sag toward the end of the 1930s, George decided it was time their real-life marriage was written into the show. The new format included husband-and-wife characters in a situation comedy setting. George's instincts were spot-on and The Burns & Allen Show went on to new heights, eventually making a successful transition to television. "Taking in a Veteran""Contest: Hollywood's Ideal Married Couple""George's Job in Washington DC""Listening to the Royal Wedding or Playing Poker" Guest, Jean Sablon"Their 15th Wedding Anniversary"Guest, Marie ("The Body") McDonald "Watching Neighbor's Daughter""Movie Contract for a Friend's Daughter""Gracie Dents the Car's Fender or Has She?""George and Gracie offered the lead in Dulcy""Going to the Racetrack"

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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. 
   
  Many say one language dominates literature, and from there one Country – England.  The sceptered isle does indeed have more than its fair share of literary behemoths.  And this is only the men. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The English - The Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Baron of Grogzwig by Charles Dickens 
  3 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 
  4 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  5 - Father Giles of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope 
  6 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  7 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 
  8 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  9 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 
  10 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  11 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins 
  12 - The House of Cobwebs by George Gissing

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  James Fenimore Cooper, Honoré de...

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  Within this decade are writers of incredible ability who are able to fashion gem-like stories that astonish our ears and brains across many genres; a literary culture that seems to endlessly build and create new paths for the restless human imagination to tread. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - The 1830's 
   
  2 - The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper 
   
  3 - A  Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac 
   
  4 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 
   
  5 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 
   
  6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
   
  7 - The Dream by Mary Shelley 
   
  8 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo 
   
  9 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 
   
  10 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth  
   
  11 - Napolean and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Arnold Bennett, William Hope...

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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. 
   
  The Victorian era ceases but England strides on. Confident, bestriding the globe as policeman and enforcer of her Imperial ways.  In literature her authors create majestic works that beguile an ever growing audience that now covers the world.  
   
  01 - The 20th Century - The English - An Introduction 
  02 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 
  03 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf 
  04 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  05 - Count Magnus by M R James 
  06 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki 
  07 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  08 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  09 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 
  10 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  11 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  12 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

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  Here's Your Hat What's Your...

  Elizabeth McCracken

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  The singular, enchanting debut story collection from Elizabeth McCracken, now back in print as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” series, and with a new introduction from the author. 
   
  Called “astonishingly assured” by The Guardian, the nine stories that make up Elizabeth McCracken’s debut story collection deal with oddball characters doing their very best to forge connections with those around them. 
  In “It’s Bad Luck to Die” a woman marries an older tattoo artist and finds comfort in agreeing to act as a canvas for his most elaborate work. “Some Have Entertained Angels, Unaware” follows a young girl as she comes face to face with a cast of eccentrics her recently-widowed father has invited to live in their expansive but dilapidated home. And in the title story, a young man and his wife are perplexed when an outspoken old woman shows up on their doorstep for a visit, claiming to be a distant aunt, even though she can’t be traced on a family tree. 
  At once captivating and offbeat, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry is a dazzling showcase of the early years of Elizabeth McCracken’s prodigious talent.  
  This captivating collection of short stories by Elizabeth McCracken is the perfect gift for any woman who loves literary fiction. 
  With stories ranging from long to short, this anthology showcases McCracken's prodigious talent and was even a National Book Award finalist. 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  Sing to It - Stories

  Amy Hempel

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  LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in precision” (The Atlantic) and “scintillating as the blade of a knife” (The Wall Street Journal). Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is beloved and highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary fiction.These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In “A Full-Service Shelter,” a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In “Greed,” a spurned wife examines her husband’s affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in “Cloudland,” the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel’s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.Ravishing, heartbreaking, and powerfully concise, Sing to It is an “exquisite collection” (The Wall Street Journal) and a “quiet masterpiece by a true American original” (NPR).

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