Talent bursts from this decade with astonishing ease. From America across Europe to Russia each and every story is an indelible mark of story-telling flecked with genius that enthralls us all. Whatever their chosen genre their stories break new ground, cover new topics and carry a legacy that cannot be disputed.
1 - The Top Ten - The 1840's
2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
3 - The Cloak by Nikolai Gogol
4 - Sextons Hero by Elizabeth Gaskell
5 - The Mummys Foot by Théophile Gautier
6 - Rappaccinnis Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7 - The Spectre of Tappington by Richard Harris Barham
8 - The Jew by Ivan Turgenev
9 - An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10 - Taman by Mikhail Lermantov
11 - The Return of Martin Guerre by Alexander Dumas
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