The Top 10 Short Stories - The 19th Century - The English

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.In this Century England assembles more of the world's territories, people and materials for her own Empire. The arts also flourish with names in this volume that are bywords for talent beyond the reach of almost all other writers. An ever hungry audience demands yet more and more.1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The English - An Introduction2 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot3 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens5 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling6 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling7 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells8 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy9 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell10 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray11 - Father Giles of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope12 - Lost Hearts by M R James13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins