The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Bierce's satirical dictionary, with nearly a thousand definitions like Patience: a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Open it on any page: it reads in short bites and its jokes about politics, money and religion still land.
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Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary FaultsBierce's alphabetical list of the words and phrases he could not stand, with a short, sharp reason for each. A quick read that still helps anyone who wants to write with more precision.
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His collection of supernatural tales, with The Damned Thing, The Moonlit Road and An Inhabitant of Carcosa, the story that gave a name to the world of The King in Yellow. Ghosts, doubles and the dead told in a calm, almost legal voice.
Verified PDF · Secure download - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A Confederate planter stands on a railroad bridge with a rope around his neck, and then the rope breaks. Bierce's most famous story takes 20 minutes to read and has one of the great twist endings in fiction.
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Hundreds of very short fables where the animals, judges and politicians are all equally greedy. Bierce takes the form of Aesop and turns every moral upside down.
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His essays on civilization, politics, law, religion and the death penalty, collected in 1909. Bierce argues against almost everything his readers believed, and does it with wit.
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