Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - 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 volume the decade reveals some who are doing very well and the many who are not; underfoot, underpaid and under-represented. Our writers of many hues and telling talents bring both their stories and their characters to bear on the decade between the two world wars with searing clarity. 01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - An Introduction 02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 03 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 04 - Rats by M R James 05 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 06 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 07 - Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood 08 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 09 - Smee by A M Burrage 10 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson 11 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen