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An American satirist, critic, poet, short story writer, editor, and journalist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was admired and feared by his peers in his role as literary despot of the West Coast. Known best for the pithy and acerbic Devil's Dictionary, excerpted in this anthology, Bierce is also regarded as one of the finest storytellers of the nineteenth century. His war and horror stories are especially compelling, while his essays and journalism round out this selection from one of California' s most noteworthy authors.
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Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination, literature, American literaturePeople
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United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, San FranciscoTimes
1861-65, 19th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Essential Bierce: a selection of Ambrose Bierce's best writing
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Table of Contents
ix INTRODUCTION
STORIES
The Haunted Valley
15 A Watcher by the Dead
27 The Man and the Snake
35 Chickamauga
43 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
53 A Son of the Gods
61 The Affair at Coulters Notch
71 Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
From The Devil's Dictionary
81 Preface
82 Law & Society
86 Religion & Politics
92 Love & Marriage
95 Science &t Philosophy
99 Language & Literature
106 Morals & Manners
EssAYS AND JOURNALISM
121 What I Saw of Shiloh
141 Wit and Humor
145 Thought and Feeling
149 To Train a Writer
151 Aims and the Plan (preface to Write It Right)
153 Bierce on the Funding Bill (San Francisco Examiner, February 1, 1896)
157 A Freak War (San Francisco Examiner, August 7,1898)
163 A Thumb-Nail Sketch
169 SoURCES
170 MAJOR WORKS BY AMBROSE BIERCE
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