The Top 10 Short Stories - Authors of the English South-West: The top ten short stories written by authors born in the South West of England
Written by Thomas Hardy
Narrated by Richard Mitchley
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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.
This limb of land extends into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s fortunes and livelihood based on what its rugged landscape, it’s shores and surrounding seas could bring to its people. Within the ranks of these locally born authors are some of our greatest talents.
01 - The Top 10 - Authors of the English South-West - An Introduction
2 - The Fiddler of the Reels by Thomas Hardy
3 - The Female Husband by Henry Fielding
4 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall
5 - Private Merrick, Company Idiot by Sapper
6 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford
7 - The Omnibus by Arthur Quiller-Couch
8 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More
9 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker
10 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts
11 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 1 by Eliza Haywood
12 - Fantomina or Love in a Maze - Part 2 by Eliza Haywood
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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