Civil War Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
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Newspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of barbed epigrams, The Devil's Dictionary, and a book of short stories (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891). Most of the 16 selections in this volume have been taken from the latter collection.
The stories in this edition include: "What I Saw at Shiloh," "A Son of the Gods," "Four Days in Dixie," "One of the Missing," "A Horseman in the Sky," "The Coup de Grace," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Story of Conscience," "One Kind of Officer," "Chickamauga," and five more.
Bierce's stories employ a buildup of suggestive realistic detail to produce grim and vivid tales often disturbing in their mood of fatalism and impending calamity. Hauntingly suggestive, they offer excellent examples of the author's dark pessimism and storytelling power.
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War stories, American, History, Fiction, American War stories, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, war fiction, English fictionPeople
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Civil War Stories
1994, Dover Publications
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"A new selection of sixteen stories from The collected works of Ambrose Bierce, volume I and II, first published in 1909 by the Neale Publishing Company, New York"--T.p. verso.
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Anthology contains:
What I saw of Shiloh --
Four days in Dixie --
A horseman in the sky --
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 Addison, philosopher --
An affair of outposts --
The story of a conscience --
One kind of officer --
George Thurston --
The mockingbird.
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