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Top 10 Short Stories, The - Men 1910s

The top ten Short Stories of the 1910's written by male authors

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Arnold Bennett, D H Lawrence, M R James, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro, Sherwood Anderson, W F Harvey, William Hope Hodgson ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 37 min

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 ... Read more

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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
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - 1910s

The top ten short stories of the 1910's.

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Sherwood Anderson, M R James, Bram Stoker, D H Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Saki, Virginia Woolf, W F Harvey ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Ian Holm, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

6 hours 13 min

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 ... Read more

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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
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Modernist Short Stories

The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein

by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D H Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, Zona Gale ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be relatively simple. Choose a theme, choose an author, choose a story. But some themes can be a little baffling. Modernism is a lovely bright term that should do exactly what it says on the cover. Yet the authors and stories themselves can be baffling in some respects or streamlined and clean lined words in another. Definitions of ... Read more

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Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be relatively simple. Choose a theme, choose an author, choose a story. But some themes can be a little baffling. Modernism is a lovely bright term that should do exactly what it says on the cover. Yet the authors and stories themselves can be baffling in some respects or streamlined and clean lined words in another. Definitions of
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The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster ...

Illustrated by Jules Feiffer ...

A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME“Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet.” --Phillip Pullman, New York Times bestselling author of His Dark MaterialsWith almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.Enriched ... Read more

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A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME“Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet.” --Phillip Pullman, New York Times bestselling author of His Dark MaterialsWith almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.Enriched
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The Time Traveler's Bookshelf: Eight Unforgettable Books

The Time Traders, Time Traveler Tales, Time Hole, The Green Door, The Big Time, etc.

by Henry James, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Robert F. Young, Andre Norton, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman ...

The Time Traveler's Bookshelf: Eight Unforgettable Books is an anthology that transcends temporal and genre boundaries, deftly weaving together themes of time travel, speculative dystopias, and haunted histories. This collection offers a captivating mix of literary styles, from the psychological intricacies of character-driven narratives to the broader imaginative vistas of science fiction and ... Read more

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The Time Traveler's Bookshelf: Eight Unforgettable Books is an anthology that transcends temporal and genre boundaries, deftly weaving together themes of time travel, speculative dystopias, and haunted histories. This collection offers a captivating mix of literary styles, from the psychological intricacies of character-driven narratives to the broader imaginative vistas of science fiction and
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Fighting Traffic

The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City

by Peter D. Norton ...

Series series Inside Technology
The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as ... Read more

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The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as
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The Beauty in Darkness: The Literary Tribute to TS Woolard

by Kasey Hill, Rob Tannahill, Sergio Palumbo, Pixie Bruner, Lindsey Goddard, Scarlet Norton-Duperre, Gerri R. Gray, Ian Klink, Katherine Kerestman, D.M. Harring, Edward Ahern, Alison Armstrong, Jesse Batista, Andrew Bell, William Bove, Dawn Colclasure, Linda M. Crate, Candice Louisa Daquin, Quinn Rowan Dex, Ursula Dirks, Murray Eiland, Zary Fekete, Thomas Folske, Michael Fowler, Norbert Góra, Mawr Gorshin, Rowan Green, Megan Guilliams, Toshiya Kamei, Shahbaz Khayambashi, Taylor Kovach, J.L. Lane, Paul Lonardo, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, J.C. Maçek III, Brianna Malotke, Xtina Marie, Summer Mason, Cyndi Mays, Rick McQuiston, DW Milton, Shane Morin, Jason Morton, Bobbie Murphy, Michael Noe, Rick Powell, Shanna Renee, John Reti, KB Richards, M. Brandon Robbins, Neil Sanzari, Zachary Schneller, ReNait Suka, Michael Errol Swaim, Tim Tolbert, Cass Wilson, Amanda Worthington ...

So many things come to mind when you think of the word dark. Horror, death, bleak, mire, and topics that most people brush over because they are too dreary to think about. The Beauty in Darkness was an anthology concept that was thought up in collaboration with the late TS Woolard when we had made plans to go in together to run Dark Moon Rising Publications. It was his idea to showcase darkness ... Read more

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So many things come to mind when you think of the word dark. Horror, death, bleak, mire, and topics that most people brush over because they are too dreary to think about. The Beauty in Darkness was an anthology concept that was thought up in collaboration with the late TS Woolard when we had made plans to go in together to run Dark Moon Rising Publications. It was his idea to showcase darkness
... Read more
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Vintage Sci-Fi 10 - 22 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Leigh Brackett and more

by Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Leigh Brackett, Henry Hasse, Alfred Coppel, Robert F. Young, Carl Jacobi, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, Keith Laumer, Evelyn E. Smith, Margaret St. Clair, Mack Reynolds ...

Narrated by Scott Miller ...

Series Audiobook box set - Vintage Sci-Fi
Unabridged

12 hours 47 min

Vintage Sci-Fi 10 - 22 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Leigh Brackett and moreThe Moon That Vanished by Leigh BrackettThe Visitor by Ray BradburyFlowering Evil by Margaret St. ClairThe Magnificent Possession by Isaac AsimovThe Shipshape Miracle by Clifford D. SimakEverest by Isaac AsimovThe Last Drive by Carl JacobiThe Blonde ... Read more

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Vintage Sci-Fi 10 - 22 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Isaac Asimov, Andre Norton, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Leigh Brackett and moreThe Moon That Vanished by Leigh BrackettThe Visitor by Ray BradburyFlowering Evil by Margaret St. ClairThe Magnificent Possession by Isaac AsimovThe Shipshape Miracle by Clifford D. SimakEverest by Isaac AsimovThe Last Drive by Carl JacobiThe Blonde
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Frankie

A Novel

by Graham Norton ...

"Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know."—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryFrom the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping work of historical fiction about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life.Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was ... Read more

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"Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know."—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryFrom the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping work of historical fiction about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life.Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was
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Loving a Forsaken Earl

by Aria Norton ...

Miss Abigail Staton leaves a quiet country life behind and travels to London to live with her brother after their father’s tragic death. As an inexperienced politician, her brother has struggled in running for a seat in the Commons. Abigail, however, is exceptionally astute and has a particular knack for politics. When a stranger shows up on their doorstep asking for assistance with an unusual ... Read more

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Miss Abigail Staton leaves a quiet country life behind and travels to London to live with her brother after their father’s tragic death. As an inexperienced politician, her brother has struggled in running for a seat in the Commons. Abigail, however, is exceptionally astute and has a particular knack for politics. When a stranger shows up on their doorstep asking for assistance with an unusual
... Read more
Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales

The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America…

by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, George MacDonald, Percy Greg, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, William Dean Howells, Ayn Rand, Samuel Butler, Milo Hastings, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, John Jacob Astor, Edward Bellamy, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Lester Del Rey, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Irving E. Cox, Francis Bacon, Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert Cromie, Philip K. Dick, August Derleth, Richard Stockham, Abraham Merritt, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, E. E. Smith, Stanley G. Weinbaum, E. M. Forster, Fred M. White, Garrett P. Serviss, Henry Rider Haggard, Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Edwin Lester Arnold, George Griffith, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Hugh Benson, Margaret Cavendish, Gustavus W. Pope ...

Translated by Lewis Page Mercier, Ellen E. Frewer, Eleanor E. King, Agnes D. Kingston, Frederick A. Malleson ...

In the expansive anthology, "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales," the reader is transported through a rich tapestry of speculative fiction that traverses time and space. This collection boasts an unparalleled variety of themes, from the mysteries of distant planets and the intrigue of forgotten worlds, to the stark realities of dystopian ... Read more

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In the expansive anthology, "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales," the reader is transported through a rich tapestry of speculative fiction that traverses time and space. This collection boasts an unparalleled variety of themes, from the mysteries of distant planets and the intrigue of forgotten worlds, to the stark realities of dystopian
... Read more
A Keeper

A Novel

by Graham Norton ...

From Graham Norton—the BAFTA Award–winning Irish television host and author of the “charming debut novel” (New York Journal of Books) Holding—a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman as she returns to Ireland after her mother’s death and unravels the identity of her father.When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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From Graham Norton—the BAFTA Award–winning Irish television host and author of the “charming debut novel” (New York Journal of Books) Holding—a masterly and haunting tale of secrets and ill-fated love follows a young woman as she returns to Ireland after her mother’s death and unravels the identity of her father.When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only
... Read more

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