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    The Top 10 Short Stories – The 20th Century – The Men: The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by male authors
    The Top 10 Short Stories – The 20th Century – The Men: The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by male authors
    The Top 10 Short Stories – The 20th Century – The Men: The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by male authors
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    The Top 10 Short Stories – The 20th Century – The Men: The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by male authors

    Written by James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka and

    Narrated by Jim Norton, Christopher Ragland and David Shaw Parker

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    From realism, to horror, to entirely new genres, authors in this Century sparkle with wit and purpose as they drive literature forward in expansive and pulsating new ways reflecting the harnessing of their talents to the bewildering changes in society.

    1 - The Top 10 - The 20th Century - The Men - An Introduction

    2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce

    3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce

    4 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence

    5 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

    6 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry

    7 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro

    8 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov

    9 - To Build a Fire by Jack London

    10 - War by Luigi Pirandello

    11 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft

    12 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateFeb 2, 2022
    ISBN9781803541662
    The Top 10 Short Stories – The 20th Century – The Men: The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by male authors
    Author

    James Joyce

    James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He came from a reasonably wealthy family which, predominantly because of the recklessness of Joyce's father John, was soon plunged into financial hardship. The young Joyce attended Clongowes College, Belvedere College and, eventually, University College, Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, and eloped with her to Croatia. From this point until the end of his life, Joyce lived as an exile, moving from Trieste to Rome, and then to Zurich and Paris. His major works are Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941, by which time he had come to be regarded as one of the greatest novelists the world ever produced.

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