The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Citadel Press, 1946 - Fiction - 810 pages

Ambrose Bierce: portrait of a misanthrope, by Clifton Fadiman.--In the midst of life, tales of soldiers and civilians.--The devil's dictionary.--Can such things be?--Fantastic fables.--The monk and the hangman's daughter.--Negligible tales.--The parenticide club.

Contents

• A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY: 3
• AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE: 9
• CHICKAMAUGA: 18

About the author

Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches. Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce; A citadel press book
• Author: Ambrose Bierce
• Editor: Clifton Fadiman
• Contributor: Clifton Fadiman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Citadel Press, 1946
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 4, 2008
• ISBN: 0806501804, 9780806501802
• Length: 810 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)