{"id":3208,"date":"2006-07-09T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2017-12-15T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T23:13:19","slug":"because-its-a-literary-list-thats-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/09\/because-its-a-literary-list-thats-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Because It&#8217;s A Literary List, That&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit presents a list of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/tos\/single\/9510\/\" target=\"_new\">favorite short stories<\/a>.  While not a true &#8220;best of&#8221; list, compulsion to convince you, gentle reader, that I have read some things has lead me to reproduce this list with the items I have read highlighted with bold font:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicreader.com\/read.php\/sid.6\/bookid.462\/\" title=\"Boule de Suif\">Boule de Suif<\/a> &#8211; Guy de Maupassant<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortstory.byethost6.com\/oflahertysniper.html\" title=\"The Sniper\">The Sniper<\/a> &#8211; Liam O\u2019Flaherty<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/owlcrk.html\" title=\"An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge\">An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge<\/a> &#8211; Ambrose Bierce<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/vashtar.html\" title=\"Sredni Vashtar\">Sredni Vashtar<\/a> &#8211; Saki (H.H. Munro)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shortstory.byethost6.com\/malamudbarrel.html\" title=\"The Magic Barrel\">The Magic Barrel<\/a> &#8211; Bernard Malamud<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/lamb.html\" title=\"Lamb To The Slaughter\">Lamb To The Slaughter<\/a> &#8211; Roald Dahl<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/lottery.html\" title=\"The Lottery Ticket\">The Lottery Ticket<\/a> &#8211; Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicreader.com\/read.php\/sid.6\/bookid.2021\/\" title=\"Squire Petrick's Lady\">Squire Petrick\u2019s Lady<\/a> &#8211; Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sujith_v.tripod.com\/stories\/bet.txt\" title=\"The Bet\">The Bet<\/a> &#8211; Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicreader.com\/read.php\/sid.6\/bookid.501\/\" title=\"A Parricide\">A Parricide<\/a> &#8211; Guy de Maupassant<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ee.1asphost.com\/shortstoryclassics\/melvillebartleby.html\" title=\"Bartleby, The Scrivener\">Bartleby, The Scrivener<\/a> &#8211; Herman Melville<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/shootelp.html\" title=\"Shooting An Elephant\">Shooting An Elephant<\/a> &#8211; George Orwell<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ee.1asphost.com\/shortstoryclassics\/flaubertsimpleheart.html\" title=\"A Simple Heart\">A Simple Heart<\/a> &#8211; Gustave Flaubert<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicreader.com\/read.php\/sid.6\/bookid.14\/\" title=\"The Pit And The Pendulum\">The Pit And The Pendulum<\/a> &#8211; Edgar Allen Poe<\/b><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicreader.com\/read.php\/sid.6\/bookid.2194\/\" title=\"The Shot\">The Shot<\/a> &#8211; Aleksandr Pushkin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ee.1asphost.com\/shortstoryclassics\/ohenrycop.html\" title=\"The Cop And The Anthem\">The Cop And The Anthem<\/a> &#8211; O. Henry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ee.1asphost.com\/shortstoryclassics\/hugofightcanon.html\" title=\"A Fight With A Cannon\">A Fight With A Cannon<\/a> &#8211; Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short stories are harder to recollect than novels if you&#8217;ve merely read them in passing, as part of a survey course, or as part of a collection or anthology.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to point out that I have a collection of Guy de Maupassant on my to-read shelves, so at some time, this personally annotated list will be more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Of all those I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;d have to say that the &#8220;Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&#8221; is probably my favorite, and I&#8217;ve sort of got the idea for a story that has it in a twist of sorts.  Sort of a combination of that and O. Henry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturecollection.com\/a\/o_henry\/106\/\" target=\"_new\">A Retrieved Retribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>So how well would you hold a conversation with Mr. du Toit on his favorite stories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit presents a list of his favorite short stories. While not a true &#8220;best of&#8221; list, compulsion to convince you, gentle reader, that I have read some things has lead me to reproduce this list with the items I have read highlighted with bold font: Boule de Suif &#8211; Guy de Maupassant The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18666,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/18666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}