Author:
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Imprint:New York : The Citadel press, [1946]
Descriptionxix, 810 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Ambrose Bierce: portrait of a misanthrope, by Clifton Fadiman. - IN THE MIDST OF LIFE: TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS: SOLDIERS: A horseman in the sky. - An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge. - Chicamauga. - A son of the gods. - One of the missing. - Killed at Resaca. - The affair at Coulter's Notch. - The coup de grâce. - Parker Adderson, philosopher. - An affair of outposts. - The story of a conscience. - One kind of officer. - One officer, one man. - George Thurston. - The mocking-bird. -- CIVILIANS: The man out of the nose. - An adventure at Brownville. - The famous Gilson bequest. - The applicant. - A watcher by the dead. - The man and the snake. - A holy terror. - The suitable surroundings. - The boarded window. - A lady from Redhorse. - The eyes of the panther. -- THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY -- CAN SUCH THINGS BE? The death of Halpin Frayser. - The secret of Macarger's Gulch. - One summer night. - The moonlit road. - A diagnosis of death. - Moxon's master. - A tough tussle. - One of twins. - The haunted valley. - A jug of sirup. - Staley Fleming's hallucination. - A resumed identity. - A baby tramp. - The night-doings at 'Deadman's' - Beyond the wall. - A psychological shipwreck. - The middle toe of the right foot. - John Mortonson's funeral. - The realm of the unreal. - John bartine's watch. - The damned thing. - Haïta the shepherd. - An inhabitant of Carcosa. - The stranger.-- FANTASTIC FABLES: Fables from 'Fun' - Aesopus Emendatus. - Old saws with new teeth. - Fables in rhyme. -- THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER. -- NEGLIGIBLE TALES: A bottomless grave. - Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-general. - The Widower Turmore. - The city of the gone away. - The major's tale. - Curried cow. - A revolt of the gods. - The baptism of Dobsho. - The race at Left Bower. - The failure of Hope and Wandel. - Perry Chumly's eclipse. - A rpovidential intimation. - Mr. Siwddler's flip-flap. - The little story. -- THE PARENTICIDE CLUB: My favorite murder. - Oil of dog. - An imperfect conflagration. - The hypnotist.
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