Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1820's

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 volume our classic authors turn their words and narratives to a decade when Europe is engulfed in revolution. At home London becomes the largest city on the globe, as the Industrial Revolution gathers pace amidst stirrings of increasing social unrest. 01 - Top 10 Short Stories - The 1820s - An Introduction 2 - El Verdugo by Honoré de Balzac 3 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 4 - Ferdinando Eboli by Mary Shelley 5 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 6 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 7 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 8 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach 9 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff 10 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 1 by William Austin 11 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 2 by William Austin 12 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee 13 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 14 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey