Publisher: Free Spirit
Authors from USA and Canada come together, in a collection of short stories themed around the popular phrase - Speak of the Devil. Enjoy this book with an open heart and mind to see a new realm unknown to you, thus far.
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. Stream of consciousness seems matter of fact nowadays. But Woolf catapulted it into a new Modernist form. Characters now came with much individuality, flaws and form that literature was forever changed. Despite her tragic suicide and the sure loss of what was to come these stories still confirm her literary greatness. 1 - The Top 10 - Virginia Woolf - An Introduction 2 - Solid Objects by Virginia Woolf 3 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf 4 - Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street 5 - A Society by Virginia Woolf 6 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf 7 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 8 - Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf 9 - A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf 10 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf 11 - The Legacy by Virginia WoolfShow book
The Top 10 – Eastern Europe - An Introduction From the Central plain of Europe to the Urals, many thousands of miles away, the nations of Eastern Europe have risen to become Empires and fallen underfoot to others. Their literary tradition has always been strong and vibrant, bold and beguiling. Within the many cultures and societies the narrative of the human condition is told in many startling and beautiful ways. 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. 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. 1 - The Top Ten - Eastern Europe - An Introduction 2 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 4 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat' 5 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 6 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 7 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 8 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub 9 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev 10 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai 11 - The Chamomile Drops by Jaroslav HasekShow book
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.America.Show book
The story revolves around Theophil Eshley, a painter known for his idyllic depictions of cattle, who finds himself unexpectedly embroiled in a comical crisis. Living in a picturesque neighborhood, Eshley's tranquil life is disrupted when his neighbor, Adela Pingsford, bursts into his studio seeking help to remove an ox that has wandered into her meticulously arranged garden.Show book
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 1 - Six of the Best - D H Lawrence - An Introduction 2 - D H Lawrence - An Introduction 3 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 4 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 5 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence 6 - The Old Adam by D H Lawrence 7 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence 8 - A Modern Lover - Part 1 by D H Lawrence 9 - A Modern Lover - Part 2 by D H LawrenceShow book
The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is J Storer Clouston.Show book
