 looking for videos on short stories so that you can prepare for the NTAUDC net English exam. If that's the case then you are at the right place. Welcome to the Crash Course series on the Unit 3 fiction in which we are going to specifically deal with the short story writers. I have already uploaded a fantastic video on American short story writers and their famous short stories. If you have not yet watched it then it's time to do that. In this particular video I am going to talk about some amazing British short story writers and their remarkable short stories. Also I would like to suggest you that I have updated a detailed course which contains all the topics which is a part of the new syllabus. So if you want to prepare for UDC net English then you can check out the detailed list of writers and topics available exclusively on ArapataKarwa.com. The link of the same is given in the description below. On top of the list is the great British writer George Orwell. George Orwell is famous for his novel 1984 and also for his novel Animal Farm. But what makes this man special is that he also wrote a bunch of short stories which are remarkable and which are still read by professors and students of English literature. We all must remember the fact that George Orwell was writing under a pen name. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair and he was born in Motihari Bihar. Later he went to Burma to serve as a police officer in the British army. Now when he was in Burma serving as a police officer he found that there was a very special incident on which he wanted to write a short story. So this short story that is shooting an elephant was actually written based on an incident which happened in front of George Orwell's eyes and therefore this story is autobiographical in nature. Basically the story talks about an incident that happened in which there was an elephant which was terrorizing the people of Burma in the bazaar but the elephant killed somebody and then destroyed some shops. This man George Orwell who was acting as the police officer there he decided that he is going to go and kill the elephant. But later when he went in order to search for the elephant he found that the elephant was sitting quietly in the jungle and eating the fruits from a tree. So he decided that let me not kill the elephant but then he was shocked to see that all the people of Burma were behind him and they were cheering that the elephant should be killed. So just because of the societal pressure and just because he doesn't wanted that people should consider him a coward he killed the elephant. And then there was a jury meeting in which some people supported him, some people were against him and a law case was set in order to find out whether what he did was correct or not. Next in line of the famous British short story writer is James Joyce. We all remember James Joyce and his famous work Ulysses also I am pretty sure that you must have heard about his another important work that is portrait of artist as a young man. But what we don't know is that he also wrote a short story collection which was known as The Blinders. Now this short story collection had 15 short stories, three out of these 15 were narrated in the first person whereas 12 of the 15 stories were narrated in the third person. All these stories talked about residence of Dublin which is a part of Ireland so each story focuses on one resident and all these stories focuses on different residence coming from different social cultural background. What makes this work special is that this work has been asked repeatedly in net exam. In August 2016 they asked a question that what is the title of a short story collection published by James Joyce in the year 1914 and the correct answer of course is The Blinders. Next British writer who has written some really fantastic short stories is Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde as we all know is closely associated with the aesthetic movement. He has written this beautiful work called picture of Dorian Gray in which he talks about what aestheticism is all about. He has also written a very famous short story with the title Nightingale and the Rose. As from the title itself you can guess that the story revolves around Nightingale and the effort of Nightingale in order to create a perfect Rose. But the climax is really sad Nightingale dies without having created a perfect Rose. So Nightingale was really sad and the student who is watching this entire episode narrates it in the third person omniscient narrator style. There are some other important short stories written by Oscar Wilde which we discuss in our online course. Another important British writer who mastered the art of storytelling was Charles Dickens. We all know this man when we read his classic works like David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities. But do you know the fact that he also mastered the art of short story writing. He wrote some amazing short stories out of which two are very important from net point of view. The first one I am pretty sure you must have read in your childhood days that's Christmas Carol. Christmas Carol is a beautiful story in which there is a man who is really bad in nature. He is very intempered and this man on the day of Christmas sees three dreams. In one dream he sees the ghost of Christmas past, in other dream he sees the ghost of Christmas present and in the final dream he sees the ghost of Christmas future. And when he looks at all the three dreams he is amazed and he is terrified to see the kind of bad deeds he has done till now and he decides that he is going to amend the ways he has been living his life. So that's a beautiful short story. Another short story is Signal Man. Signal Man is a erigo story written by Charles Dickens in which he is looking at a railway signal man and how this railway signal man is haunted when he sees ghosts in the railway station. So the author creates amazing haunted atmosphere just like the horror movies and this atmosphere is very similar to a graveyard. So it's a classic story. I think you should read it if you love to watch horror movies. I am pretty sure you are going to enjoy it. So these were some amazing British authors who wrote short stories and who have created a mark in the history of English literature. 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