| Description |
ix, 880 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 219 |
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Library of America ; 219.
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| Contents |
In the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians). Soldiers: A horseman in the sky -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Chickamauga -- A son of the gods -- One of the missing -- Killed at Resaca -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- The coup de grâce -- Parker Adderson, philosopher -- An affair of outposts -- The story of a conscience -- One kind of officer -- One officer, one man -- George Thurston -- The mocking-bird. Civilians: The man out of the nose -- An adventure at Brownville -- The famous Gilson bequest -- The applicant -- A watcher by the dead -- The man and the snake -- A holy terror -- The suitable surroundings -- The boarded window -- A lady from Redhorse -- The eyes of the panther -- |
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Can such things be? Can such things be?: The death of Halpin Frayser -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch -- One summer night -- The moonlit road -- A diagnosis of death -- Moxon's master -- A tough tussle -- One of twins -- The haunted valley -- A jug of sirup -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- A resumed identity -- A baby tramp -- The night-doings at "Deadman's" -- Beyond the wall -- A psychological shipwreck -- The middle tow of the right foot -- John Mortonson's funeral -- The realm of the undead -- John Bartine's watch -- The damned thing -- Haïta the shepherd -- An inhabitant of Carcosa -- The stranger -- |
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The way of ghosts: Present at a hanging -- A cold greeting -- A wireless message -- An arrest. Soldier folk: A man with two lives -- Three and one are one -- A baffled ambuscade -- Two military executions. Some haunted houses: The isle of pines -- A fruitless assignment -- A vine on a house -- At old man Eckert's -- The spook house -- The other lodgers -- The thing at Nolan. "Mysterious disappearances": The difficulty of crossing a field -- An unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail. The Devil's dictionary. |
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Bits of autobiography: On a mountain -- What I saw of Shiloh -- A little of Chickamauga -- The crime at Pickett's Mill -- Four days in Dixie -- What occurred at Franklin -- 'Way down in Alabam' -- Working for an Empress -- Across the plains -- The mirage -- A sole survivor. Selected stories: Mrs. Dennison's head -- The man overboard -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General -- A bottomless grave -- For the Ahkhoond -- My favorite murder -- Oil of dog -- Ashes of the beacon. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- 19th century.
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English language -- Dictionaries -- Humor.
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English language -- Semantics -- Humor.
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Vocabulary -- Humor.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Joshi, S. T., 1958-
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| Added Title |
Ambrose Bierce : the devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs |
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Devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs. |
| ISBN |
9781598531022 |
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1598531026 |
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