Ambrose: 683 books

BEST AUTHORS BEST STORiES - 2 Anton Chekhov   -   Sleepy Edgar Allan Poe   -   Hop-Frog Mary E. Wilkins Freeman   -   One Good Time L. Frank BaumHickory   -   Dickory, Dock Nathaniel Hawthorn   -   Ethan Brand Oscar Wilde   -   Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Guy de Maupassant ...

BEST AUTHORS BEST STORiES - 4 O. Henry     -    A Newspaper Story Louisa May Alcott    -    A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True Mark Twain    -    A Dog's Tale L. Frank Baum    -    Humpty Dumpty Guy de Maupassant    -    In the Spring Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842; died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short storywriter, fabulist, and satirist. Today, he is probably best known for his short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical lexicon The...

THE BEST SHORT STORY - 5 AUTHORS Jack London Guy de Maupassant Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain H.H. Munro (SAKI) Ambrose Bierce L. Frank Baum Charlotte M. Yonge Anton Chekhov Nathaniel Hawthorne EDITED BY Ahmet Ünal ÇAM Aloha Oe by Jack London ________________________________________ Never...

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) by Ambrose Bierce. In this text Bierce creatively uses both structure and content to explore the concept of time, from present to past, and reflecting its transitional and illusive...

BEST STORIES BEST AUTHORS - 5 ------------------------------ L. Frank Baum     - A Kidnapped Santa Claus Louisa May Alcott    - A Modern Cinderella Guy de Maupassant    - A Mother of Monsters Mark Twain    - A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It Anton Chekhov    - Boys Edgar...

Contents Rudyard Kipling My Own True Ghost Story The Sending of Dana Da In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife A. Conan Doyle A Case of Identity A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League Egerton Castle The Baron's Quarry   Stanley J. Weyman The Fowl in the Pot Robert Louis Stevenson...

In Ambrose Bierce’s short story One of the Missing, an orderly for the Union Army undertakes a scouting mission. Preparing to fire on a retreating army, the structure in which he is hiding is suddenly destroyed by cannon fire. When he comes to, he realizes he is completely pinned under the rubble....

Stories of the Civil War, from volume 2 of the Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Including A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY, AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE, CHICAMAUGA, A SON OF THE GODS, ONE OF THE MISSING, KILLED AT RESACA , THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH, THE COUP DE GRACE, PARKER ADDERSON PHILOSOPHER,...

Peyton Farquhar, a confederate sympathizer, stands to be hanged for his role in a plot to demolish Owl Creek Bridge. As he awaits death, Farquhar considers the possibility of escape—the chances of slipping his bonds, swimming to safety, and returning to his family. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek...

Ambrose Bierce was an American writer who is best known for his realism. Often compared to Poe for the dark, realistic nature of his short stories, Bierce drew upon his Civil War experience as a soldier to write on a wide variety of subjects, and stories like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge are still widely read.

A wonderful example of the macabre and surreal mind of Ambrose Bierce.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's...

Ironic and satiric verse. According to Wikipedia: "Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries...