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The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs / Ambrose Bierce ; S.T. Joshi, editor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 219.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA), c2011.Description: ix, 880 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781598531022 :
  • 1598531026
Other title:
  • Ambrose Bierce : the devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs
  • Devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs
Uniform titles:
  • Selections. 2011
Contained works:
  • Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. Tales of soldiers and civilians
  • Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. Can such things be?
  • Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. Devil's dictionary
  • Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. Bits of autobiography
  • Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.4/BIE
LOC classification:
  • .D4 2011b
  • .A6 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
In the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians). Soldiers. 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 grâce ; Parker Adderson, philosopher ; An affair of outposts ; The story of a conscience ; One kind of officer ; One officer, one man ; George Thurston ; The mocking-bird -- Civilians. The man out of the nose ; An adventure at Brownville ; The famous Gilson bequest ; The applicant ; A watcher by the dead ; The man and the snake ; A holy terror ; The suitable surroundings ; The boarded window ; A lady from Redhorse ; The eyes of the panther --
Can such things be? The death of Halpin Frayser ; The secret of Macarger's Gulch ; One summer night ; The moonlit road ; A diagnosis of death ; Moxon's master ; A tough tussle ; One of twins ; The haunted valley ; A jug of sirup ; Staley Fleming's hallucination ; A resumed identity ; A baby tramp ; The night-doings at "Deadman's" ; Beyond the wall ; A psychological shipwreck ; The middle toe of the right foot ; John Mortonson's funeral ; The realm of the unreal ; John Bartine's watch ; The damned thing ; Haïta the shepherd ; An inhabitant of Carcosa ; The stranger -- The way of ghosts. Present at a hanging ; A cold greeting ; A wireless message ; An arrest -- Soldier folk. A man with two lives ; Three and one are one ; A baffled ambuscade ; Two military executions -- Some haunted houses. The isle of pines ; A fruitless assignment ; A vine on a house ; At old man Eckert's ; The spook house ; The other lodgers ; The thing at Nolan -- "Mysterious disappearances". The difficulty of crossing a field ; An unfinished race ; Charles Ashmore's trail --
The Devil's dictionary --
Bits of autobiography. On a mountain ; What I saw of Shiloh ; A little of Chickamauga ; The crime at Pickett's Mill ; Four days in Dixie ; What occurred at Franklin ; 'Way down in Alabam' ; Working for an Empress ; Across the plains ; The mirage ; A sole survivor --
Selected stories. Mrs. Dennison's head ; The man overboard ; Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ; A bottomless grave ; For the Ahkhoond ; My favorite murder ; Oil of dog ; Ashes of the beacon.
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In the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians). Soldiers. 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 grâce ; Parker Adderson, philosopher ; An affair of outposts ; The story of a conscience ; One kind of officer ; One officer, one man ; George Thurston ; The mocking-bird -- Civilians. The man out of the nose ; An adventure at Brownville ; The famous Gilson bequest ; The applicant ; A watcher by the dead ; The man and the snake ; A holy terror ; The suitable surroundings ; The boarded window ; A lady from Redhorse ; The eyes of the panther --

Can such things be? The death of Halpin Frayser ; The secret of Macarger's Gulch ; One summer night ; The moonlit road ; A diagnosis of death ; Moxon's master ; A tough tussle ; One of twins ; The haunted valley ; A jug of sirup ; Staley Fleming's hallucination ; A resumed identity ; A baby tramp ; The night-doings at "Deadman's" ; Beyond the wall ; A psychological shipwreck ; The middle toe of the right foot ; John Mortonson's funeral ; The realm of the unreal ; John Bartine's watch ; The damned thing ; Haïta the shepherd ; An inhabitant of Carcosa ; The stranger -- The way of ghosts. Present at a hanging ; A cold greeting ; A wireless message ; An arrest -- Soldier folk. A man with two lives ; Three and one are one ; A baffled ambuscade ; Two military executions -- Some haunted houses. The isle of pines ; A fruitless assignment ; A vine on a house ; At old man Eckert's ; The spook house ; The other lodgers ; The thing at Nolan -- "Mysterious disappearances". The difficulty of crossing a field ; An unfinished race ; Charles Ashmore's trail --

The Devil's dictionary --

Bits of autobiography. On a mountain ; What I saw of Shiloh ; A little of Chickamauga ; The crime at Pickett's Mill ; Four days in Dixie ; What occurred at Franklin ; 'Way down in Alabam' ; Working for an Empress ; Across the plains ; The mirage ; A sole survivor --

Selected stories. Mrs. Dennison's head ; The man overboard ; Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ; A bottomless grave ; For the Ahkhoond ; My favorite murder ; Oil of dog ; Ashes of the beacon.

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