Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories
By: Ambrose Bierce ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Tom Quirk.
Contributors: Quirk, Tom, 1946-
Edition: printing (1)
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780140437560
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; War stories, American.; Supernatural -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War,1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Questing after Pancho Villa’s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil’s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some of Bierce’s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge‘ and ‘Chickamauga‘, his macabre masterpieces "The Damned Thing" and "Moxon's Master", and his hilariously horrific "Oil of Dog" and "My Favorite Murder".
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii).
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Suggestions for Further Reading; title: A Note on the Text; title: From In the Midst of Life; title: Soldiers:; title: A Horseman in the Sky; title: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; title: Chickamauga; title: A Son of the Gods; title: One of the Missing; title: Killed at Resaca; title: The Affair at Coulter’s Notch; title: The Coup de Grâce; title: Parker Adderson, Philosopher; title: An Affair of Outposts; title: The Story of a Conscience; title: One Kind of Officer; title: The Mocking-Bird; title: Civilians:; title: The Man Out of the Nose; title: The Man and the Snake; title: The Boarded Window; title: From Can Such Things Be?; title: Can Such Things Be?:; title: Moxon’s Master; title: A Tough Tussle; title: A Resumed Identity; title: The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s”; title: The Realm of the Unreal; title: The Damned Thing; title: Haïta the Shepherd; title: The Ways of Ghosts:; title: Present at a Hanging; title: A Wireless Message; title: Soldier Folk; title: Three and One Are One; title: from NEGLIGIBLE TALES; title: Negligible Tales; title: A Bottomless Grave; title: Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General; title: The City of the Gone Away; title: The Major's Tale; title: Curried Cow; title: A Revolt of the Gods; title: The Parenticide Club; title: My Favorite Murder; title: Oil of Dog; title: from ANTEPENULTIMATA; title: A Bivouac of the Dead; title: from THE OPINIONATOR; title: The Controversialist; title: The Short Story; title: EXPLANATORY NOTES; title: GLOSSARY OF MILITARY TERMS; title: BATTLE SITES AND BATTLE LEADERS