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050 _aPS1097
_b.A6 2011
100 1 _aBierce, Ambrose,
_d1842-1914?
240 1 0 _aSelections.
_f2011
245 1 4 _aThe devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs /
_cAmbrose Bierce ; S.T. Joshi, editor.
246 3 _aAmbrose Bierce :
_bthe devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs
246 3 _aDevil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs
260 _aNew York, N.Y. :
_bLibrary of America :
_bDistributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA),
_cc2011.
300 _aix, 880 p. ;
_c21 cm.
490 1 _aThe Library of America ;
_v219
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 0 _tIn the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians).
_gSoldiers.
_tA horseman in the sky ;
_tAn occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ;
_tChickamauga ;
_tA son of the gods ;
_tOne of the missing ;
_tKilled at Resaca ;
_tThe affair at Coulter's Notch ;
_tThe coup de graÌce ;
_tParker Adderson, philosopher ;
_tAn affair of outposts ;
_tThe story of a conscience ;
_tOne kind of officer ;
_tOne officer, one man ;
_tGeorge Thurston ;
_tThe mocking-bird --
_gCivilians.
_tThe man out of the nose ;
_tAn adventure at Brownville ;
_tThe famous Gilson bequest ;
_tThe applicant ;
_tA watcher by the dead ;
_tThe man and the snake ;
_tA holy terror ;
_tThe suitable surroundings ;
_tThe boarded window ;
_tA lady from Redhorse ;
_tThe eyes of the panther --
505 8 0 _tCan such things be?
_tThe death of Halpin Frayser ;
_tThe secret of Macarger's Gulch ;
_tOne summer night ;
_tThe moonlit road ;
_tA diagnosis of death ;
_tMoxon's master ;
_tA tough tussle ;
_tOne of twins ;
_tThe haunted valley ;
_tA jug of sirup ;
_tStaley Fleming's hallucination ;
_tA resumed identity ;
_tA baby tramp ;
_tThe night-doings at "Deadman's" ;
_tBeyond the wall ;
_tA psychological shipwreck ;
_tThe middle toe of the right foot ;
_tJohn Mortonson's funeral ;
_tThe realm of the unreal ;
_tJohn Bartine's watch ;
_tThe damned thing ;
_tHaiÌta the shepherd ;
_tAn inhabitant of Carcosa ;
_tThe stranger --
_gThe way of ghosts.
_tPresent at a hanging ;
_tA cold greeting ;
_tA wireless message ;
_tAn arrest --
_gSoldier folk.
_tA man with two lives ;
_tThree and one are one ;
_tA baffled ambuscade ;
_tTwo military executions --
_gSome haunted houses.
_tThe isle of pines ;
_tA fruitless assignment ;
_tA vine on a house ;
_tAt old man Eckert's ;
_tThe spook house ;
_tThe other lodgers ;
_tThe thing at Nolan --
_t"Mysterious disappearances".
_tThe difficulty of crossing a field ;
_tAn unfinished race ;
_tCharles Ashmore's trail --
505 8 0 _tThe Devil's dictionary --
505 8 0 _tBits of autobiography.
_tOn a mountain ;
_tWhat I saw of Shiloh ;
_tA little of Chickamauga ;
_tThe crime at Pickett's Mill ;
_tFour days in Dixie ;
_tWhat occurred at Franklin ;
_t'Way down in Alabam' ;
_tWorking for an Empress ;
_tAcross the plains ;
_tThe mirage ;
_tA sole survivor --
505 8 0 _tSelected stories.
_tMrs. Dennison's head ;
_tThe man overboard ;
_tJupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ;
_tA bottomless grave ;
_tFor the Ahkhoond ;
_tMy favorite murder ;
_tOil of dog ;
_tAshes of the beacon.
520 _aA veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance.
650 0 _aShort stories, American
_y19th century.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_vDictionaries
_vHumor.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xSemantics
_vHumor.
650 0 _aVocabulary
_vHumor.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_vFiction.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial life and customs
_vFiction.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865
_vPersonal narratives.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y19th century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aJournalists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
655 7 _aShort stories.
_2gsafd
655 7 _aWar stories.
_2gsafd
700 1 _aJoshi, S. T.,
_d1958-
700 1 2 _aBierce, Ambrose,
_d1842-1914?
_tTales of soldiers and civilians.
700 1 2 _aBierce, Ambrose,
_d1842-1914?
_tCan such things be?
700 1 2 _aBierce, Ambrose,
_d1842-1914?
_tDevil's dictionary.
700 1 2 _aBierce, Ambrose,
_d1842-1914?
_tBits of autobiography.
700 1 2 _aBierce, Ambrose,
_d1842-1914?
_tShort stories.
_kSelections.
830 0 _aLibrary of America ;
_v219.
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