Ambrose Bierce

Civil War Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Popular American writer Ambrose Bierce comes alive in the magnificent collection of short stories. Having been no stranger to the battlefield, Bierce draws upon his experience as a soldier and the stories he heard during the American Civil War in this collection. However, his tales do not happily reminisce about the good times; instead, Bierce's dry wit and love of the macabre guide his stories to much darker places. "Civil War Stories", includes the tale "Chickamauga", the story of a young boy who fell asleep in the woods after playing alone. When he wakes, he sees a group of soldiers marching back from a battle. In jest, the young boy begins marching with them, and even participates in burning a house to the ground. In Bierce's most famous and chronicled story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer, is tricked by Union soldiers and is hanged in front of his wife and children. Somehow, though he manages to escape his noose and is able to run far away from the frenzied scene. Regardless of which of the sixteen stories included in this collection that you read, you will be amazed at Bierce's ability to spin a short, suspenseful tale about one of the most tumultuous times in American history. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neeland Media LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781420963021
• Artikelnr.: 57619574

Autorenporträt

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) journalist, satirist, and Civil War veteran, began his satirical redefinitions of ordinary words in a weekly newspaper in 1881, and saw them first collected in The Cynic's Word Book (1906). It was with the 1911 republication as The Devil's Dictionary that he struck comedy gold for the ages with his ironic riffs on American culture. Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1 What I Saw of Shiloh 2 Four Days in Dixie 3 A Horseman in the Sky 4 An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 5 Chickamauga 6 A Son of the Gods 7 One of
the Missing 8 Killed at Resaca 9 The Affair at Coulter's Notch 10 The Coup
de Grâce 11 Parker Adderson, Philosopher 12 An Affair of Outposts 13 The
Story of a Conscience 14 One Kind of Officer 15 George Thurston 16 The
Mocking-bird