Title: Essential Bierce
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination, literature, American literature
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, San Francisco
People: Peyton Farquhar, Dr. Helberson, Dr. Mancher
Time periods: 1861-65, 19th century
LC classification: PS1097 .A6 2007