Title: The Story and Its Writer--Compact Fifth Edition
Subjects: Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, Imagination, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, short story, Authorship
Places: United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Mallard residence
People: Peyton Farquhar, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards
Time periods: 1861-1865, 19th century