Top Ten Short Stories, The - European 19th

by Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Boleslaw Prus

Genres: Anthologies; Classics; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

The Top 10 – The European 19th Century – an Introduction

A century of change. Some catastrophic, some fantastical. Europe reaches out its national tentacles in a global grab for Empire. At home, revolutions erupt and decay. Literature gains a widespread audience through advancing technology. Here, in this volume, authors absorb and then reveal their wondrous stories.

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.

1 - Top 10 - The European 19th Century

2 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

4 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat'

5 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

6 - The Story of B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle

7 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

8 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo

9 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus

10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac

11 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai

1 - Top 10 - The European 19th Century

2 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

4 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Overcoat'

5 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

6 - The Story of B24 by Arthur Conan Doyle

7 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

8 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo

9 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus

10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac

11 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai