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About The Top 10 Short Stories - Oxford Graduates: The top ten short stories of all time written by authors that went to Oxford

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 we explore and enjoy the stories of authors who attended one of the great seats of learning. Amongst their storied number are Anthony Trollope, Radclyffe Hall, Lewis Carroll and a host of others. 01 - The Top 10 - Oxford - An Introduction 02 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 03 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 04 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 05 - The Blank Cheque by Lewis Carroll 06 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 07 - Lucifera by Anthony Hope 08 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster 09 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 by Richard Harris Barham 10 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 by Richard Harris Barham 10 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 11 - The Omnibus by Arthur Quiller-Couch 12 - The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey