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    The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1850's: The top ten Short Stories written from 1850 - 1859
    The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1850's: The top ten Short Stories written from 1850 - 1859
    The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1850's: The top ten Short Stories written from 1850 - 1859
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    The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1850's: The top ten Short Stories written from 1850 - 1859

    Written by Herman Melville, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell and

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers and Ghizela Rowe

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    About this audiobook

    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 decade life on both sides of the Atlantic relied on territorial expansion and the gathering of industrial muscle. The people who live there merely cogs in a vast machine. Our authors illuminate these times with words that bring humanity and life to these literary gems.

    01 - The Top Ten - The 1850's - An Introduction

    02 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot

    03 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot

    04 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville

    05 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville

    06 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

    07 - Master Zacharius - Part 1 by Jules Verne

    08 - Master Zacharius - Part 2 by Jules Verne

    09 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

    10 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

    11 - Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott

    12 -The Lake Gun by James Fenimore Cooper

    13 - Two Offers by Frances Watkins Harper

    14 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 5, 2022
    ISBN9781803541921
    The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1850's: The top ten Short Stories written from 1850 - 1859
    Author

    Herman Melville

    Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. Following a period of financial trouble, the Melville family moved from New York City to Albany, where Allan, Herman’s father, entered the fur business. When Allan died in 1832, the family struggled to make ends meet, and Herman and his brothers were forced to leave school in order to work. A small inheritance enabled Herman to enroll in school from 1835 to 1837, during which time he studied Latin and Shakespeare. The Panic of 1837 initiated another period of financial struggle for the Melvilles, who were forced to leave Albany. After publishing several essays in 1838, Melville went to sea on a merchant ship in 1839 before enlisting on a whaling voyage in 1840. In July 1842, Melville and a friend jumped ship at the Marquesas Islands, an experience the author would fictionalize in his first novel, Typee (1845). He returned home in 1844 to embark on a career as a writer, finding success as a novelist with the semi-autobiographical novels Typee and Omoo (1847), befriending and earning the admiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and publishing his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851. Despite his early success as a novelist and writer of such short stories as “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno,” Melville struggled from the 1850s onward, turning to public lecturing and eventually settling into a career as a customs inspector in New York City. Towards the end of his life, Melville’s reputation as a writer had faded immensely, and most of his work remained out of print until critical reappraisal in the early twentieth century recognized him as one of America’s finest writers.

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