false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358151m/49252.jpg 49252 2 <div>Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic <i>An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge</i> will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them <i>The Death of Halpin Frayser</i> and <i>The Damned Thing</i>, and such tall tales as <i>Oil of Dog</i> and <i>A Cargo of Cat</i>.<br><br></div> 48178 1 12 1985 The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce total:254|5:114|4:97|3:39|2:4|1:0| 254 1083 395 33 5 2 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 25 16:02:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 20:41:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 23 16:55:34 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:27:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 17 07:31:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 04 16:43:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 26 08:35:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 08:44:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 16 14:14:36 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 14:24:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 18 18:30:45 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 31 15:41:55 -0700 2009
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