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The stories and fables of Ambrose Bierce
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Publisher
Stemmer House
Publication Date
1977
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Stories. A psychological shipwreck
Chickamauga
An occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
A horseman in the sky
One of the missing
A wireless message
The stranger
The man and the snake
The coup de grâce
Curried cow
The secret of Macarger's Gulch
A resumed identity
One kind of officer
One summer night
Three and one are one
The death of Halpin Frayser
John Bartine's watch
Staley Fleming's hallucination
Oil of dog
The hypnotist
The difficulty of crossing a field
An arrest
Moxon's master
Killed at Resaca
Haïta the shepherd
Present at a hanging
An inhabitant of Carcosa
One officer, one man
The damned thing
Fables. The man with no enemies
The lifesaver
Saint and sinner
Saint and soul
The lassoed bear
The Australian grasshopper
The discontented malefactor
Two poets
The austere governor
The reform school board
The witch's steed
Legislator and soap
The tried assassin
The bumbo of Jiam
The city of political distinction
The tolerant sovereign
A little learning
The flying machine
The incredulous subordinate
The statue at Bumboogle
Two politicians
A faulty performance
A defective petition
The reformed anarchist
Patriot and banker
A hasty settlement
The crimson candle
The foolish woman
The fugitive office
The eligible son-in-law
Highwayman and traveler
Policeman and citizen
Moral principle and material interest
The dutiful son
A matter of taste
The fabulist
Two of the pious
The secret of happiness
Atonement
A part of the wages
Sheep and lion
Officer and thug
Famine versus pestilence
The inconsolable widow
The mysterious word
A plucked goose
The tyrant frog
Widow and soldier
Two sons
Consolation
The seeker for simplicity
Revelation
Disappointment
The justice and his accuser
Wolf and tortoise
Alarm and pride
Environment
A causeway
A talisman
The shadow of the leader
A radical parallel
Physicians two
The thistles upon the grave
Kangaroo and zebra
The honest cadi
The overlooked factor
The returned Californian
The no case
Two of the damned
Religions of error
The humble peasant
Judge and rash act
Deceased and heirs
An optimist
The compassionate physician
A forfeited right
Revenge
Man and wart
An unspeakable imbecile
At heaven's gate
Fogy and Sheik
Sportsman and squirrel
No irregularity
A transposition
Old man and pupil
Two footpads
Dog and doctor
The monk and the hangman's daughter.
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9780916144197
9780916144203
9780916144203
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