Description |
xxix, 274 pages ; 20 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Series |
Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page xxvii). |
Contents |
from In the Midst of Life: A Horseman in the Sky -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Chickamauga -- A Son of the Gods -- One of the Missing -- Killed at Resaca -- The Affair at Coulter's Notch -- The Coup de Grace -- Parker Adderson, Philosopher -- An Affair of Outposts -- The Story of a Conscience -- One Kind of Officer -- The Mocking-Bird -- The Man Out of the Nose -- The Man and the Snake -- The Boarded Window -- from Can Such Things Be?: Moxon's Master -- A Tough Tussle -- A Resumed Identity -- The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" -- The Realm of the Unreal -- The Damned Thing -- Haita the Shepherd -- Present at a Hanging -- A Wireless Message -- Three and One Are One -- from Negligible Tales: A Bottomless Grave -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General -- The City of the Gone Away -- The Major's Tale -- Curried Cow -- A Revolt of the Gods -- My Favorite Murder -- Oil of Dog -- from Antepenultimata: A Bivouac of the Dead -- from The Opinionator: The Short Story. |
Summary |
A collection of more than three dozen short stories by Ambrose Bierce. |
Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Horror fiction.
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War fiction.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Added Author |
Quirk, Tom, 1946-
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ISBN |
9780140437560 (paperback) |
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0140437568 (paperback) |
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