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Selections. 1996
Bierce, Ambrose,
xix, 810 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN:
0735100810
0735100810
Ambrose Bierce : portrait of a misanthrope / In the midst of life : tales of soldiers and civilians -- The devil's dictionary -- Can such things be? -- Fantastic fables -- The monk and the hangman's daughter -- Negligible tales -- The parenticide club.
Selections. 1996
Bierce, Ambrose,
xix, 810 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN:
0806501804
0806501804 (pbk.) : 9.95
Ambrose Bierce : portrait of a misanthrope / In the midst of life : tales of soldiers and civilians -- The devil's dictionary -- Can such things be? -- Fantastic fables -- The monk and the hangman's daughter -- Negligible tales -- The parenticide club.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, 1972.
0138215383
Blissful isles / Domestic manners on the Marquesas / The dance of the sprouting corn / Echoes of the jazz age / The world of migratory workers / Fashions in fourteenth century Italy / An other directed man / In the pillory / The grand inquisitor / The city of the sun / An authoritarian father / Shame / I want to know why / Learning a trade / The prelude / I am Emily / Tar is bothered / Anne discovers love / Gabriel's search for the real thing / Hitch-hiking / My first goose / Shooting an elephant / The soft touch of grass / The egg / Arrangement in black and white / A little woman / The art of marking distances / On account of a hat / A chameleon / While the auto waits / Rank order aboard a man-of-war / The pecking order of a restaurant / The world as a stage / The darling / The way you get at Mum / A doll's house cracks up / Martha's quest / Her second husband took a lover / A room of one's own / What makes a peer? / The flow of the mushroom-broth / The doom of the nobility / Waiting at the station / The first people in Boston and Philadelphia / The lower classes smell / Power and its limits / Coercion and the lure of power / Saint Joan's appeal / A business tyrant / The basis of Napoleon's power / The poverty of power / A succession crisis and its resolution / The genus "clerk" and his natural habitat / The circumlocution office / In the maze of bureaucracy / One kind of officer / Reading gaol / The enormous room / The world of the scum / Such, such were the joys / The cold and the warm / Ward politics, money, and organization / The voice of the demagogue / Robert Penn Warren -- The politics of radicalism / How to become a dictator / The politics of Stalinism / The shame of Liverpool / The city as nightmare / The powers and rhythms of London / Paris, the scene and the setting / The anatomy of Paris / I want some more / Child of the dark / Barbara Dugan's story / Everybody white she saw was Mr. Charlie / A black woman shall see hard times / A man and a woman and children / The matriarch arranges a wedding / When six wives squabble / Shino and Hamaji, or When duty is stronger than love / On the importance of having a son / A patriarch / The perils and dilemmas of marital choice ; A happy family / The varieties of religious experience in Polynesia / A Hindu ceremony / Discipline, devotion, and Catholic ritual / A revival / Babbitt's religion or "Christianity Incorporated" / The price of keeping one's place / Learning submission / To be a Negro / Huck breaks the white code / Capable of their own action / On the eve / The natural history of a mob / Crowds, mobs, and terror in Hollywood / Mob passion / How the Bastille was stormed / A throne is toppled / Mademoiselle / The philosopher / Suicide / Concerning the infanticide Marie Farrar / The monkey on the back / The stolen ribbon / The insane / All cohaerence gone / The second coming / Things were drifting toward the abyss / An anomic man / A voice from the underground / The crack-up / "Smart" dealings in America / Crime and its correctives / The Christmas tree and the wedding /
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
9781432866662
Introduction / Cargo / Horror of the heights / Nightmare at 20,000 feet / Flying machine / Lucifer! / Fifth category / Two minutes forty-five seconds / Diablitos / Air raid / You are released / Warbirds / The flying machine / Zombies on a plane / They shall not grow old / Murder in the air / The turbulance expert / Falling / Afterword: an important message from the flight deck /
Ashes of the beacon. The land beyond the blow. For the Ahkoond. John Smith, liberator. Bits of autobiography -- In the midst of life (tales of soldiers and civilians) -- Can such things be? The way of ghosts. Soldier-folk. Some haunted houses -- Shapes of clay. Some ante-mortem epitaphs. The scrap heap -- Black beetles in amber. The mummery. On stone -- Monk and the hangman's daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from "Fun." Aesopus emendatus. Old saws with new teeth. Fables in rhyme -- Devil's dictionary -- Negligible tales. The parenticide club. The fourth estate. The ocean wave. "On with the dance!" Epigrams -- Tangential views -- Opinionator. The reviewer. The controversialist. The timorous reporter. The March hare -- Antepenultimata -- In motley: Kings of beasts. Two administrations. Miscellaneous
Ashes of the beacon -- The land beyond the blow -- For the Ahkoond -- John Smith, liberator -- Bits of autobiography -- In the midst of life (tales of soldiers and civilians)-- Can such things be? -- The way of ghosts -- Soldier-folk -- Some haunted houses ---- Shapes of clay -- Some ante-mortum epitaphs -- The scrap heap -- Black beetles in amber -- The mummery -- On stone -- The monk and the hangman's daughter -- Fantastic fables -- Fables from "Fun." -- Aesopus emendatus -- Old saws with new teeth -- Fables in rhyme.-- The Devil's dictionary.-- Negligible tales -- The parenticide club -- The fourth esate -- The ocean wave -- "On with the dance!" -- Epigrams -- Tangential views -- The opinionator -- The reviewer -- The controversialist -- The timorous reporter -- The March hare -- Antepenultimata -- In motley: Kings of beasts -- Two administrations -- Miscellaneous.
Introduction / The sand man / The mummy's foot / An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street / The upper berth / His unconquerable enemy / In dark New England days / The yellow wallpaper / Desiree's baby / The yellow sign / A tragedy of bones / A night of horror / The corpse-rider / The leather funnel / The shadows on the wall / Lost hearts / The Moonlight road / The spider / The woman with the hood / The Easter egg / The squaw /
Short stories
Bierce, Ambrose,
496 pages :
ISBN/ISSN:
0803260717 (pbk.)
0803260717 (pbk.)
Haïta the shepherd -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- Eyes of the panther -- Stranger -- Inhabitant of Carcosa -- Applicant -- Death of Halpin Frayser -- Watcher by the dead -- Man and the snake -- John Mortonson's funeral -- Moxon's master -- Damned thing -- Realm of the unreal -- Fruitless assignment -- Vine on a house -- Haunted valley -- One of twins -- Present at a hanging -- Wireless message -- Moonlit road -- Arrest -- Jug of sirup -- Isle of pines -- At old man Eckert's -- Spook house -- Middle toe of the right foot -- Thing at Nolan -- Difficulty of crossing a field -- Unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- Night-doings at "Deadman's" -- Baby tramp -- Psychological shipwreck -- Cold greeting -- Beyond the wall -- John Bartine's watch -- Man out of the nose -- Adventure at Brownville -- Suitable surroundings -- Boarded window -- Lady from redhorse -- Famous Gilson bequest -- Holy terror -- Diagnosis of death -- One of the missing -- Baffled ambuscade -- Affair at Coulter's notch -- Son of the gods -- One kind of officer -- Tough tussle -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Chickamauga -- Coup de Grâce -- One officer, one man -- Story of a conscience -- Parker Adderson, philosopher -- Affair of outposts -- Jupiter Doke, brigadier-general -- Horseman in the sky -- Mocking-bird -- George Thurston -- Killed at Resaca -- Three and one are one -- Two military executions -- Major's tale -- Resumed identity -- Man with two lives -- Other lodgers -- Bivouac of the dead -- Imperfect conflagration -- Bottomless grave -- City of the gone away -- Curried cow -- Revolt of the gods -- Oil of dog -- Widower Turmore -- Baptism of Dobsho -- Race at left bower -- Failure of Hope & Wandel -- Providential intimation -- Mr. Swiddler's flip-flap -- Little story -- My favorite murder -- Hypnotist -- Mr. Masthead, journalist -- Why I am not editing "The stinger" -- Corrupting the press -- "The bubble reputation" -- Shipwreckollection -- Captain of the "camel" -- Man overboard -- Cargo of cat.
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
9780199685448
The sandman / The man in the bell / George Dobson's expedition to hell / La grande bretêche / Berenice- a tale / Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter / The birth-mark / The Tartarus of Maids / What was it? / No. 1 Branch line: The signal-man / The death of Olivier Bécaille / The Vivisector vivisected / The body-snatcher / The mark of the beast / Chickamauga / The yellow wall paper / The case of Lady Sannox / The squaw / The repairer of reputations / Novel of the white powder / The adventure of Lady Wishaw's hand / The monkey's paw / Luella Miller / Count Magnus / The Wendigo / August heat / The room in the tower / The derelict / Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter / The birth-mark / The Tartarus of Maids / What was it? / No. 1 Branch line: The signal-man / The death of Olivier Bécaille / The Vivisector vivisected / The body-snatcher / The mark of the beast / Chickamauga / The yellow wall paper / The case of Lady Sannox / The squaw / The repairer of reputations / Novel of the white powder / The adventure of Lady Wishaw's hand / The monkey's paw / Luella Miller / Count Magnus / The Wendigo / August heat / The room in the tower / The derelict /
