The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce
By: compiled with commentary by Ernest Jerome Hopkins ; foreword by Cathy N. Davidson.
Contributors: Hopkins, Ernest Jerome, 1887-1973.
Edition: First Bison Book printing (1)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1984-12
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780803260719
Copyright date: 1984
Description: Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them The Death of Halpin Frayser and The Damned Thing, and such tall tales as Oil of Dog and A Cargo of Cat.
Notes: "A Bison book"--Spine.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: Ambrose Bierce, Nonconformist; title: THE WORLD OF Horror; title: Foreword; title: Haita the Shepherd; title: The Secret of Macarger's Gulch; title: The Eyes of the Panther; title: The Stranger; title: An Inhabitant of Carcosa; title: The Applicant; title: The Death of Halpin Frayser; title: A Watcher by the Dead; title: The Man and the Snake; title: John Mortonson's Funeral; title: Moxon's Master; title: The Damned Thing; title: The Realm of the Unreal; title: A Fruitless Assignment; title: A Vine on a House; title: The Haunted Valley; title: Onc of Twins; title: Present at a Hanging; title: A Wireless Message; title: The Moonlit Road; title: An Arrest; title: A Jug of Sirup; title: The Isle of Pines; title: At Old Man Eckert's; title: The Six»k House; title: The Middle Toe of the Right F'»t; title: The Thing at Nolan; title: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field; title: An Unfinished Race; title: Charles Ashmore's Trail; title: Staley Fleming's Hallucination; title: The Night-Doings at "l)eadman's"; title: A Baby Tramp; title: A Shipwreck; title: A Cold Greeting; title: Beyond the Wall; title: John Bartine's Watch; title: The Man Out Of the Nose; title: An Adventure at Brownville; title: The Suitable Surroundings; title: The Window; title: A Lady from; title: •ne Famous Gilson Bequest; title: A Holy Terror; title: A Diagnosis of Death; title: II; title: THE WORLD OF War; title: One of the Missing; title: A Baffled Ambuscade; title: The Affair at Coulter's Notch; title: A Son of the Gcds; title: One Kind of Ofhcer; title: A Tough Tussle; title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge•; title: Chickamauga; title: ne Coup de Grace; title: One Officer, One Man; title: The Story Of a Conscience; title: Parker Adderson, Philosopher; title: An Affair of Outposts; title: Jupiter Dole, BrigadietGeneral; title: A Horseman in the Sky; title: The Mtxking-Bird; title: George Thurston; title: Killed at Resaca; title: Three and One Are One; title: Two Military Executions; title: The Major's Tale; title: A Resumed Identity; title: A Man with Two Lives; title: The Other; title: A Bivouac Of the Dead; title: III; title: THE WORLD OP Tall Tales; title: Foreword; title: An Irnrxrftxt Conflagration; title: A Bottornless Grave; title: The City of the Gone Away; title: Curried Cow; title: A Revolt of the Gods; title: Oil of Dog; title: The Widower Turmore; title: The Baptism Of Dobsho; title: The Race at Left Bower; title: The Failure of Holr & Wandel; title: A Providential Intimation; title: Mr. Swiddler's Flip-flap; title: The Little Story; title: My Favorite Murder; title: The Hypnotist; title: Mr. Masthead, Journalist; title: Why 1 Am Not Editing Stinger"; title: Corrupting the Press; title: Bubble Reputation"; title: A Shipwreckollection; title: The Captain Of the "Camel*; title: The Man Overb(Md; title: A (hrgo of Cat