The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein

Read by Jim Norton Laurel Lefkow & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 10hrs 33mins)

Featuring stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Damon Runyon, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & more.

Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be relatively simple.  Choose a theme, choose an author, choose a story.  But some themes can be a little baffling.  Modernism is a lovely bright term that should do exactly what it says on the cover.   Yet the authors and stories themselves can be baffling in some respects or streamlined and clean lined words in another. 

Definitions of what is Modernism can seem arbitrary or blurred.  In essence we can agree on some but not on others:

In this compilation - 

01 - Modernist Short Stories - An Introduction

02 - Eveline by James Joyce

03 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

04 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield

05 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker

06 - The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf

07 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence

08 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein

09 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield

10 - The Defense of Strikerville by Damon Runyon

11 - Araby by James Joyce

12 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield

13 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner

14 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

15 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis

16 - Ariel's Triumph by Booth Tarkington

17 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

18 - White Bread by Zona Gale

19 - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

20 - A Cullenden of Virginia by Thomas Wolfe

21 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce

22 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce