Tales of Soldiers & Civilians
By: by Ambrose Bierce ; edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson ; & illustrated with wood engravings by Paul Landacre
Contributors: Jackson, Joseph Henry, 1894-1955; Landacre, Paul, 1893-1963, ill
Publisher: Heritage Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Norwalk, CT, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
Copyright date: 1971
Description: Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him the Devil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fiction 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of supernatural horror. Reminiscent of Poe, these stories are marked by a sardonic humour and a realistic study of tense emotional states.
Notes: Originally published by Heritage Press in 1943.
Table of contents: label: A Horseman in the Sky; label: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; label: A Son of the Gods; label: One of the Missing; label: Killed at Resaca; label: A Tough Tussle; label: The Affair at Coulter's Notch; label: George Thurston; label: The Coup de Grace; label: One Officer, One Man; label: A Resumed Identity; label: Parker Anderson, Philosopher; label: The Damned Thing; label: The Man and the Snake; label: Moxon's Master; label: A Psycological Shipwreck; label: The Secret of Macarger's Gulch; label: The Moonlit Road; label: Beyond the Wall; label: A Jug of Syrup; label: A Watcher of the Dead; label: The Night-Doings at "Deadman's"; label: A Vine on a House; label: The Famous Gilson Bequest; label: John Bortine's Watch; label: The Boarded Window; label: The Stranger; label: The Middle Toe of the Right Foot