An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
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Philosophy. A text with readings--Eleventh edition by Manuel G. Velasquez, Ambrose Bierce
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40 Short Stories -- Sixth Edition by Beverly Lawn, Joanne Diaz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Alice Walker, Richard Wright
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The Norton introduction to literature--ninth edition by Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, Kelly J. Mays, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Brontë, Michael Chabon, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin
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Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition by Kennedy, X. & Gioia, D., Dana Gioia, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Burgess, Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, X. J. Kennedy
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The Story and Its Writer by Ann Charters, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Антон Павлович Чехов, Jorge Luis Borges
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The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction--Shorter Eighth Edition by Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience by Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith, Edward Albee, Amos Bronson Alcott, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Ambrose Bierce, Arna Wendell Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Michael J. Caduto, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Chief Joseph, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Miriam Davis Colt, George Cooper, Stephen Crane, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, E. L. Doctorow, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Erdoes, Richard, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Ian Frazier, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Goss, Warren Lee, Alex Haley, Lorraine Hansberry, Joy Harjo, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayden, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, John Richard Hersey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Garrett Hongo, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Stonewall Jackson, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert E. Lee, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Washington Matthews, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, McKim, Randolph H., Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Molly Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Eugene O'Neill, Alfonso Ortiz, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Grace Paley, Arthur C. Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Wesley Powell, Anna Quindlen, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, William Safire, Ricardo Sanchez, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Sojourner Truth, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Darryl Babe Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Amy K. Duer, Richard Lederer, Christopher Columbus, Joni Mitchell, John Smith, Tom Wolfe, Steve Wulf, Abigail Adams, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bailey White, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, Robert E. Lee, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, James Cloyd Bowman, Anonymous, Joel, Billy., Flannery Oconnor, Martin Espada, Garret Hongo
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The Language of Literature -- American Literature [Grade 11] by Arthur N. Applebee, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Andrea B. Bermudez, Sheridan Blau
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The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Антон Павлович Чехов, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Jack London, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, 村上春樹, Vladimir Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Proulx, Philip A. Roth, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Albert Camus
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Understanding fiction by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Антон Павлович Чехов, Cleanth, Jr.; Warren, Robert Penn Brooks, Cleanth Brooks, cleanth brooks, book
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Subjects

Union, hanging, Fiction, History, American Civil War, Classic Literature, Confederate States of America, Juvenile audience, civil war, Short Stories, Imagination, short story, meaning of love, selfhood, freedom, self-fulfilment, American literature, Literature, Collections, Short stories

Places

Owl Creek Bridge, Alabama, United States, Mallard residence, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Jefferson, New England, Salem Village, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, San Francisco, New York, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, Wall Street, Carcosa, Amazon rainforest, Caribbean

People

Peyton Farquhar, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Devil, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Colonel Sartoris

Times

19th century, 1861-1865, Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Antebellum era, 1600s, Carnival, 20th century, American Civil War, 1692

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Ambrose Bierce, 206 books
Kate Chopin, 122 books
Антон Павлович Чехов, 87 books
Margaret Atwood, 60 books
Jorge Luis Borges, 53 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 33 books
Mark Twain, 29 books
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 29 books
Chinua Achebe, 28 books
Ray Bradbury, 27 books
William Faulkner, 25 books
Lewis Carroll, 23 books
Emily Brontë, 21 books
Herman Melville, 21 books
Jack London, 19 books
X. J. Kennedy, 17 books
John Steinbeck, 17 books
Edith Wharton, 16 books
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 15 books
James Joyce, 13 books
Edgar V. Roberts, 11 books
Stephen Crane, 11 books
Richard Wright, 11 books
Shirley Jackson, 11 books
Dana Gioia, 11 books