The stories and fables of Ambrose Bierce

Collection contains: Stories. A psychological shipwreck -- Chickamauga -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_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 Felming'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 -- [Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W) One officer, one man -- [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) 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 -- Religious of error -- The humble peasant -- Judge and rash act -- Deceased and heirs --

Year

1977

Language

English

Publisher

Stemmer House

Editions

3

Pages

343

ISBN

9780916144197

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