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The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

The Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

by Ambrose Bierce (Author), ErnestJeromeHopkins (Editor)

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    Paperback 1988

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Synopsis

In The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined war as a by-product of the arts of peace. A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about courage, honor, and glory on the battlefield. These stories form one of the great antiwar statements in American literature. Included here are the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, The Mocking Bird, The Coup de Grace, Parker Anderson, Philosopher, and other stories celebrated for their intensity, startling insight, and mastery of form.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 139
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 01 Jun 1988
ISBN 10: 0803260873
ISBN 13: 9780803260870

Media Reviews
He will remain one of our greatest wits, one of our most uncompromising satirists, the perfecter of two or three new genres. -Clifton Fadiman -- Clifton Fadiman
Bierce's war stories are. . .arresting, often shocking accounts of the incivilities perpetrated by and on men suddenly confronting their own mortality. -Cathy N. Davidson, author of The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce -- Cathy N. Davidson
[These] striking stories center on subject matter virtually unique in fiction: the awareness of imminent violent death. Perhaps borrowing from his experience of being gravely wounded in the Civil War, [Bierce] wrote upward of a dozen stories in which the protagonist knows he is about to die, usually by hanging or firing squad-or, in a variation, recovers consciousness after being pronounced dead. -Dennis Drabelle, Smithsonian -- Dennis Drabelle * Smithsonian *