The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce

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Stemmer House, 1977 - Manners and customs - 343 pages
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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Contents

A Psychological Shipwreck
3
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
18
A Horseman in the Sky
29
Copyright

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About the author (1977)

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

TitleThe Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
ContributorEdward Wagenknecht
PublisherStemmer House, 1977
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedJan 21, 2011
ISBN0916144208, 9780916144203
Length343 pages
  
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