The Stories and Fables of Ambrose Bierce
By: selected and with an introd. by Edward Wagenknecht ; illustrated by Ferebe Streett.
Contributors: Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Stemmer House
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Owings Mills, MD, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780916144197
Copyright date: 1977
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A Barbara Holdridge Book."
Table of contents: title: Stories.; title: A psychological shipwreck --; title: Chickamauga --; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge --; title: A horseman in the sky --; title: One of the missing --; title: A wireless message --; title: The stranger --; title: The man and the snake --; title: The coup de grâce --; title: Curried cow --; title: The secret of Macarger's Gulch --; title: A resumed identity --; title: One kind of officer --; title: One summer night --; title: Three and one are one --; title: The death of Halpin Frayser --; title: John Bartine's watch --; title: Staley Felming's hallucination --; title: Oil of dog --; title: The hypnotist --; title: The difficulty of crossing a field --; title: An arrest --; title: Moxon's master --; title: Killed at Resaca --; title: Haïta the shepherd --; title: Present at a hanging --; title: An inhabitatant of Carcos --; title: One officer, one man --; title: The damned thing. Fables. The man with no enemies --; title: The lifesaver --; title: Saint and sinner --; title: Saint and soul --; title: The lassoed bear --; title: The Australian grasshopper --; title: The discontented malefactor --; title: Two poets --; title: The austere governor --; title: The reform school board --; title: The witch's steed --; title: Legislator and soap --; title: The tried assassin --; title: The bumbo of Jiam --; title: The city of political distinction --; title: The tolerant sovereign --; title: A little learning --; title: The flying machine --; title: The incredulous subordinate --; title: The statue at Bumboogle --; title: Two politicians --; title: A faulty performance --; title: A defective petition --; title: The reformed anarchist --; title: Patriot and banker --; title: A hasty settlement --; title: The crimson candle --; title: The foolish woman --; title: The fugitive office --; title: The eligible son-in-law --; title: Highwayman and traveler --; title: Policeman and citizen --; title: Moral principle and material interest --; title: The dutiful son --; title: A matter of taste --; title: The fabulist --; title: Two of the pious --; title: The secret of happiness --; title: Atonement --; title: A part of the wages --; title: Sheep and lion --; title: Officer and thug --; title: Famine versus pestilence --; title: The inconsolable widow --; title: The mysterious word --; title: A plucked goose --; title: The tyrant frog --; title: Widow and soldier --; title: Two sons --; title: Consolation --; title: The seeker for simplicity --; title: Revelation --; title: Disappointment --; title: The justice and his accuser --; title: Wolf and tortoise --; title: Alarm and pride --; title: Environment --; title: A causeway --; title: A talisman --; title: The shadow of the leader --; title: A radical parallel --; title: Physicians two --; title: The thistles upon the grave --; title: Kangaroo and zebra --; title: The honest cadi --; title: The overlooked factor --; title: The returned Californian --; title: The no case --; title: Two of the damned --; title: Religious of error --; title: The humble peasant --; title: Judge and rash act --; title: Deceased and heirs --; title: An optimist --; title: The compassionate physician --; title: A forfeited right --; title: Revenge --; title: Man and wart --; title: An unspeakable imbecile --; title: At heaven's gate --; title: Fogy and sheik --; title: Sportsman and squirrel --; title: No irregularity --; title: A transposition --; title: Old man and pupil --; title: Two footpads --; title: Dog and doctore --; title: The monk and the hangman's daughter.