The Complete Short Stories Of Ambrose Bierce (Paperback)

Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them "The Death of Halpin Frayser" and "The Damned Thing," and such tall tales as "Oil of Dog" and "A Cargo of Cat."

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1984
First published:	December 1984
Authors:	Ambrose Bierce
Editors:	Ernest Jerome Hopkins
Foreword by:	Cathy N. Davidson
Dimensions:	202 x 135 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6071-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	0-8032-6071-7
Barcode:	9780803260719

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