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Publisher: Start Publishing LLC (December 10, 2012)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English ASIN: B00AMXXMGE Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Lending: Not Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,005 Paid in Kindle Store  Publication Date: December 10, 2012 Sixteen dark and vivid selections by a great satirist and short-story writer. "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," "Four Days in Dixie," and 10 more. Masterly tales offer excellent examples of Bierce's dark pessimism and storytelling power. Review "He will remain one of our greatest wits, one of our most uncompromising satirists, the perfecter of two or three new genres."—Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman) "Bierce's war stories are. . .arresting, often shocking accounts of the incivilities perpetrated by and on men suddenly confronting their own mortality."—Cathy N. Davidson, author of The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce (Cathy N. Davidson) "[These] striking stories center on subject matter virtually unique in fiction: the awareness of imminent violent death. Perhaps borrowing from his experience of being gravely wounded in the Civil War, [Bierce] wrote upward of a dozen stories in which the protagonist knows he is about to die, usually by hanging or firing squad—or, in a variation, recovers consciousness after being pronounced dead."—Dennis Drabelle, Smithsonian (Dennis Drabelle Smithsonian) Sharing Widget |
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