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Stories and Fables

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The text of The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter ac- companies twenty-nine stories and eighty-seven fables that illuminate the nature of Bierce's preoccupations andthe distinctive features of his style.

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Cover of: Stories and Fables
Stories and Fables
June 12, 1981, Stemmer House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
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Cover of: The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce
The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce
1977, Stemmer House
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Table of Contents

Stories.
A psychological shipwreck --
Chickamauga --
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge --
A horseman in the sky --
One of the missing --
A wireless message --
The stranger --
The man and the snake --
The coup de grâce --
Curried cow --
The secret of Macarger's Gulch --
A resumed identity --
One kind of officer --
One summer night --
Three and one are one --
The death of Halpin Frayser --
John Bartine's watch --
Staley Felming's hallucination --
Oil of dog --
The hypnotist --
The difficulty of crossing a field --
An arrest --
Moxon's master --
Killed at Resaca --
Haïta the shepherd --
Present at a hanging --
An inhabitatant of Carcos --
One officer, one man --
The damned thing. Fables. The man with no enemies --
The lifesaver --
Saint and sinner --
Saint and soul --
The lassoed bear --
The Australian grasshopper --
The discontented malefactor --
Two poets --
The austere governor --
The reform school board --
The witch's steed --
Legislator and soap --
The tried assassin --
The bumbo of Jiam --
The city of political distinction --
The tolerant sovereign --
A little learning --
The flying machine --
The incredulous subordinate --
The statue at Bumboogle --
Two politicians --
A faulty performance --
A defective petition --
The reformed anarchist --
Patriot and banker --
A hasty settlement --
The crimson candle --
The foolish woman --
The fugitive office --
The eligible son-in-law --
Highwayman and traveler --
Policeman and citizen --
Moral principle and material interest --
The dutiful son --
A matter of taste --
The fabulist --
Two of the pious --
The secret of happiness --
Atonement --
A part of the wages --
Sheep and lion --
Officer and thug --
Famine versus pestilence --
The inconsolable widow --
The mysterious word --
A plucked goose --
The tyrant frog --
Widow and soldier --
Two sons --
Consolation --
The seeker for simplicity --
Revelation --
Disappointment --
The justice and his accuser --
Wolf and tortoise --
Alarm and pride --
Environment --
A causeway --
A talisman --
The shadow of the leader --
A radical parallel --
Physicians two --
The thistles upon the grave --
Kangaroo and zebra --
The honest cadi --
The overlooked factor --
The returned Californian --
The no case --
Two of the damned --
Religious of error --
The humble peasant --
Judge and rash act --
Deceased and heirs --
An optimist --
The compassionate physician --
A forfeited right --
Revenge --
Man and wart --
An unspeakable imbecile --
At heaven's gate --
Fogy and sheik --
Sportsman and squirrel --
No irregularity --
A transposition --
Old man and pupil --
Two footpads --
Dog and doctore --
The monk and the hangman's daughter.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS1097 .A6 1977

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
344

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8336797M
ISBN 10
0916144208
ISBN 13
9780916144203
LCCN
77020146
OCLC/WorldCat
3380180
Library Thing
1316523
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
4461008

Work Description

Collection contains:
Stories.
A psychological shipwreck --
Chickamauga --
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A horseman in the sky --
One of the missing --
A wireless message --
The stranger --
The man and the snake --
The coup de grâce --
Curried cow --
The secret of Macarger's Gulch --
A resumed identity --
One kind of officer --
One summer night --
Three and one are one --
The death of Halpin Frayser --
John Bartine's watch --
Staley Felming's hallucination --
Oil of dog --
The hypnotist --
The difficulty of crossing a field --
An arrest --
Moxon's master --
Killed at Resaca --
Haïta the shepherd --
Present at a hanging --
Inhabitant of Carcosa
One officer, one man --
Damned Thing
Fables. The man with no enemies --
The lifesaver --
Saint and sinner --
Saint and soul --
The lassoed bear --
The Australian grasshopper --
The discontented malefactor --
Two poets --
The austere governor --
The reform school board --
The witch's steed --
Legislator and soap --
The tried assassin --
The bumbo of Jiam --
The city of political distinction --
The tolerant sovereign --
A little learning --
The flying machine --
The incredulous subordinate --
The statue at Bumboogle --
Two politicians --
A faulty performance --
A defective petition --
The reformed anarchist --
Patriot and banker --
A hasty settlement --
The crimson candle --
The foolish woman --
The fugitive office --
The eligible son-in-law --
Highwayman and traveler --
Policeman and citizen --
Moral principle and material interest --
The dutiful son --
A matter of taste --
The fabulist --
Two of the pious --
The secret of happiness --
Atonement --
A part of the wages --
Sheep and lion --
Officer and thug --
Famine versus pestilence --
The inconsolable widow --
The mysterious word --
A plucked goose --
The tyrant frog --
Widow and soldier --
Two sons --
Consolation --
The seeker for simplicity --
Revelation --
Disappointment --
The justice and his accuser --
Wolf and tortoise --
Alarm and pride --
Environment --
A causeway --
A talisman --
The shadow of the leader --
A radical parallel --
Physicians two --
The thistles upon the grave --
Kangaroo and zebra --
The honest cadi --
The overlooked factor --
The returned Californian --
The no case --
Two of the damned --
Religious of error --
The humble peasant --
Judge and rash act --
Deceased and heirs --
An optimist --
The compassionate physician --
A forfeited right --
Revenge --
Man and wart --
An unspeakable imbecile --
At heaven's gate --
Fogy and sheik --
Sportsman and squirrel --
No irregularity --
A transposition --
Old man and pupil --
Two footpads --
Dog and doctore --
The monk and the hangman's daughter.

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