The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs
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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 -- Affair at Coulter's Notch -- Coup de grâce -- Parker Adderson, philosopher -- An affair of outposts -- Story of a conscience -- One kind of officer -- One officer, one man -- George Thurston -- Mocking-bird.
Civilians -- Man out of the nose -- An adventure at Brownville -- Famous Gilson bequest -- Applicant -- A watcher by the dead -- Man and the snake -- A holy terror -- Suitable surroundings -- Boarded window -- A lady from Redhorse -- Eyes of the panther.
Can such things be? -- Death of Halpin Frayser -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- One summer night -- Moonlit road -- A diagnosis of death -- Moxon's master -- A tough tussle -- One of twins -- Haunted valley -- A jug of sirup -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- A resumed identity -- A baby tramp -- Night-doings at "Deadman's" -- Beyond the wall -- A psychological shipwreck -- Middle toe of the right foot -- John Mortonson's funeral -- Realm of the unreal -- John Bartine's watch -- Damned thing -- Haïta the shepherd -- An inhabitant of Carcosa -- Stranger.
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 -- Isle of pines -- A fruitless assignment -- A vine on a house -- At old man Eckert's -- Spook house -- Other lodgers -- Thing at Nolan -- "Mysterious disappearances" -- Difficulty of crossing a field -- An unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail.
The Devil's dictionary.
Bits of autobiography -- On a mountain -- What I saw of Shiloh -- A little of Chickamauga -- Crime at Pickett's Mill -- Four days in Dixie -- What occurred at Franklin -- 'Way down in Alabam' -- Working for an Empress -- Across the plains -- Mirage -- A sole survivor.
Selected stories -- Mrs. Dennison's head -- Man overboard -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General -- A bottomless grave -- For the Ahkhoond -- My favorite murder -- Oil of dog -- Ashes of the beacon.
Contents: Tales of soldiers and civilians. -- Can such things be? -- Devil's dictionary. -- Bits of autobiography. -- Short stories.
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SERIES
Library of America
219.
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA), c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: ix, 880 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781598531022
1598531026
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Joshi, S. T., 1958-
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
SUBJECTS
Short stories, American -- 19th century.
English language -- Humor.
English language -- Semantics -- Humor.
Vocabulary -- Humor.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Journalists -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Short stories.
War stories.