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Summary

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 authors show that Modernism was once cutting edge.  A way to explore, create, show and share in new ways.   Decades may have passed but their words still seem fresh and new and cutting edge.  Genius in every name. 
 
01 - The Top 10 - The Modernists - An Introduction 
02 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
03 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
04 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 
05 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon 
06 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield 
07 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
08 - Youth - Part 1 by Joseph Conrad 
09 - Youth - Part 2 by Joseph Conrad 
10 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein 
11 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker 
12 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis 
13 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington

Duration: about 7 hours (06:45:19)
Publishing date: 2023-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Short Stories
• Classics
• Essay
• Contemporary Fiction