The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1830s

Within this decade are writers of incredible ability who are able to fashion gem-like stories that astonish our ears and brains across many genres; a literary culture that seems to endlessly build and create new paths for the restless human imagination to tread. 1 - The Top Ten - The 1830's 2 - The Eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper 3 - A Passion In The Desert by Honoré de Balzac 4 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 5 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 7 - The Dream by Mary Shelley 8 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo 9 - The Nose by Nickolai Gogol 10 - The White Pigeon by Maria Edgeworth 11 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte