The Letters of Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
The letters Bierce wrote to younger writers and friends, with advice on style, opinions on books and glimpses of his private life, up to his last trip to Mexico. Includes a memoir by the poet George Sterling.
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Tales of Soldiers and CiviliansThe collection that holds An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga and A Horseman in the Sky, written by a writer who fought at Shiloh. Its soldier stories show the war without glory, and its civilian tales, like The Boarded Window, turn quietly to horror.
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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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Bierce'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.
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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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