The Top 10 Short Stories - Men 1910s

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.A decade of catastrophic worldwide war. Empires in tectonic collision, a society heaving under the yoke, tired of sacrifice, ready for revolution. In literature ideas were explored and detailed revealing a world and people that seem so long ago but also very near.1 - The Top 10 - The 1910's - The Men - An Introduction2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce4 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka5 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro6 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence7 - The Revolutionist by Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev8 - Casting the Runes by M R James9 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson11 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett12 - August Heat by W F Harvey