The Top 10 Short Stories - The US Authors of the Mid-West: The top ten Short Stories of all time written by American authors born in the Mid-West
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Damon Runyon, Ambrose Bierce and
Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers and Laurel Lefkow
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About this audiobook
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.
The plains of the American Mid-West are home to some very fine exponents of the literary craft. Throughout this vast landscape stories seem to be everywhere offering their experiences as works just awaiting the final touches and flourishes of these famed authors. They deliver in very talented ways.
1 - The Top 10 - US Authors of the Mid-West - An Introduction
2 - Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F Scott Fitzgerald
3 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon
4 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
5 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis
6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
7 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar
8 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
9 - White Bread by Zona Gale
10 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson
11 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, the quintessential tale of the decadence and overindulgence of the Jazz Age. Born into an upper middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised in New York. After dropping out of Princeton University in 1917 to join the Army, he was stationed in Alabama, where he met wealthy socialite Zelda Sayre. It was only after he achieved moderate success with his debut novel This Side of Paradise that Zelda agreed to marry him. His second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, propelled him to literary stardom, the volatile nature of which inspired his best-known work The Great Gatsby. Though it met with mixed reviews in Fitzgerald’s lifetime, The Great Gatsby is now considered by some literary scholars to be the “Great American Novel.” Haunted by alcoholism, declining popularity, and financial difficulties well into the 1930s, Fitzgerald died in 1940. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously in 1941.
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