Bierce Ambrose: 382 books

We all love a good crime story. An anthology of short crime stories, written by the finest of craftsman of their age, is always a welcome treat. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages...

THE BEST SHORT STORIES - 2 Best Authors - Best Stories Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, W. W. Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, Hans Christian Anderse , O. Henry, Edited by  Ahmet Ünal ÇAM

Table of contents A Baby Tramp   A Chaparral Christmas Gift   How Theseus Slays the Minotaur   A Chameleon   A Child's Dream of a Star A Country Christmas A December Day in Dixie   A Descent Into the Maelstrom   A Duel A Haunted House   A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce If you had seen little...

Anton Chekhov H.H. Munro (SAKI) HP Lovecraft Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Stephen Leacock Sherwood Anderson O. Henry Ambrose Bierce Matsuo Basho James Joyce Edted by Ahmet Ünal ÇAM

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 ...

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...

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...

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

Short story by the caustic satirist Ambrose Bierce about the the joint shenanigans of crooked newspaper reporters and shady politicians.