Essential Bierce
Subtitle: A Selection of the Writings of  Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Santa Clara University /Heyday Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Santa Clara, California
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781597140546
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: American - General; Literature & Fiction / Literature; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics
Description: An American satirist, critic, poet, short story writer, editor, and journalist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was admired and feared by his peers in his role as literary despot of the West Coast. Known best for the pithy and acerbic Devil's Dictionary, excerpted in this anthology, Bierce is also regarded as one of the finest storytellers of the nineteenth century. His war and horror stories are especially compelling, while his essays and journalism round out this selection from one of California' s most noteworthy authors.
Table of contents: title: ix INTRODUCTION; title: STORIES; title: The Haunted Valley; title: 15 A Watcher by the Dead; title: 27 The Man and the Snake; title: 35 Chickamauga; title: 43 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; title: 53 A Son of the Gods; title: 61 The Affair at Coulters Notch; title: 71 Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General; title: From The Devil's Dictionary; title: 81 Preface; title: 82 Law & Society; title: 86 Religion & Politics; title: 92 Love & Marriage; title: 95 Science &t Philosophy; title: 99 Language & Literature; title: 106 Morals & Manners; title: EssAYS AND JOURNALISM; title: 121 What I Saw of Shiloh; title: 141 Wit and Humor; title: 145 Thought and Feeling; title: 149 To Train a Writer; title: 151 Aims and the Plan (preface to Write It Right); title: 153 Bierce on the Funding Bill (San Francisco Examiner, February 1, 1896); title: 157 A Freak War (San Francisco Examiner, August 7,1898); title: 163 A Thumb-Nail Sketch; title: 169 SoURCES; title: 170 MAJOR WORKS BY AMBROSE BIERCE; title: ABOUT THE EDITOR