Tales of Soldiers & Civilians
by Ambrose Bierce
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Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him the Devil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fiction 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of supernatural horror. Reminiscent of Poe, these stories are marked by a sardonic humour and a realistic study of tense emotional states.
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History, Fiction, United States Civil War, Classic Literature, Short Stories, hanging, Confederacy, Union, literature, American literature, Manners and customs, American Short storiesPeople
Peyton Farquhar, Dr. Helberson, Dr. MancherPlaces
United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, San FranciscoTimes
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Originally published by Heritage Press in 1943.
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28 stories:
A horseman in the sky --
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A son of the Gods --
One of the missing --
Killed at Resaca --
A tough tussle --
The affair at Coulter's Notch --
George Thurston --
The Coup de Gŕce --
One officer, one man --
A resumed identity --
Parker Adderson, philosopher --
The Damned Thing
The man and the snake --
Moxon's master --
A psychological shipwreck --
The secret of Macarger's Gulch --
The moonlight road --
Beyond the wall --
A jug of syrup --
A Watcher by the Dead
The night-doings at "Deadman's" --
A vine on a house --
The famous Gilson Bequest --
John Bartine's watch --
The boarded window --
The stranger --
The middle toe of the right foot.
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