Ambrose Bierce: 382 books

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The story of a civil war soldier being hung for his conviction in fighting for the other side.  He is freed when the rope breaks and he plunges into the river below.  He struggles for freedom, home and family.  This story is used often times to illustrate a successful story telling technique which includes adding an unexpected twist to the plot.

With reference to certain actual and possible questions of priority and originality, it may be explained that this Word Book was begun in the San Francisco "Wasp" in the year 1881, and has been continued, in a desultory way, in several journals and periodicals. As it was no part of the author's...

The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by...

One summer morning a planter was sitting with his wife and a child on the veranda. The planter had a big field which was about ten acres. At the time, there was not even a domestic animal in the field. But in another field were at work about a dozen of slaves. The planter saw his mate who wanted to...

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada. To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil, and to pictures of the latter it appends a tail to represent the...

A wonderful collection of the most surreal, macabre and terrifying stories penned by one of the finest short story writers of American literature.

"He says that he's instructed to reply (And he has so instructed me) that sin Like yours--and this poor gentleman's who's in For bad advice to you--comes rather high; But since, apparently, you both begin To feel some pious promptings to the right, And fain would turn your faces to the light, Eternity...

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   Table of contents A Cosmopolite in a Cafe At Sea Aunt Kipp Little Bun Rabbit    The Ambitious Guest   The Story Of The Bad Little Boy Vanka   The Body Snatcher   The Mark On The Wall   The Affair at Coulter's Notch   A Cosmopolite in a Cafe by O. Henry     At midnight the cafe was crowded....

BEST STORIES BEST AUTHORS - 10 A Defenseless Creature Andy Lovell Girl The Enchanted Bluff The Eyes of the Panther Roger Malvin's Burial The War Prayer The Dragon's Teeth The Clarion Call The Happy Prince A Defenseless Creature by Anton Chekhov       IN spite of a violent attack of...

A Blunder by Anton Chekhov ILYA SERGEITCH PEPLOV and his wife Kleopatra Petrovna were standing at the door, listening greedily. On the other side in the little drawing-room a love scene was apparently taking place between two persons: their daughter Natashenka and a teacher of the district school,...

Table of contents A Double-Dyed Deceiver Legend of Mont St. Michel Little Miss Muffet Louisa May Alcott: A Child's Biography   The Antique Ring   The Five Boons of Life The Masque of the Red Death   The Author Anton Chekhov A Daughter Of Albion   A Burglar's Christmas   A Baffled Ambuscade   A...

This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable – and untameable – essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description...