Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other StoriesPenguin, 2000 M02 1 - 304 pages Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and 'Chickamauga', his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of supernatural horror. Reminiscent of Poe, these stories are marked by a sardonic humour and a realistic study of tense emotional states. |
Contents
A Horseman in the Sky | 5 |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | 11 |
Chickamauga | 20 |
A Son of the Gods | 26 |
One of the Missing | 32 |
Killed at Resaca | 43 |
The Affair at Coulters Notch | 49 |
The Coup De Grace | 57 |
The Realm of the Unreal | 157 |
The Damned Thing | 164 |
Haita the Shepherd | 172 |
Present at a Hanging | 179 |
A Wireless Message | 181 |
Three and One Are One | 185 |
A Bottomless Grave | 193 |
Jupiter Doke BrigadierGeneral | 200 |
Parker Adderson Philosopher | 63 |
An Affair of Outposts | 69 |
The Story of a Conscience | 78 |
One Kind of Officer | 85 |
The MockingBird | 95 |
The Man Out of the Nose | 103 |
The Man and the Snake | 110 |
The Boarded Window | 117 |
Moxons Master | 127 |
A Tough Tussle | 136 |
A Resumed Identity | 143 |
The NightDoings at Deadmans | 149 |
The City of the Gone Away | 209 |
The Majors Tale | 215 |
Curried Cow | 222 |
A Revolt of the Gods | 228 |
My Favorite Murder | 233 |
Oil of Dog | 241 |
A Bivouac of the Dead | 247 |
The Short Story | 253 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 261 |
GLOSSARY OF MILITARY TERMS | 269 |
BATTLE SITES AND BATTLE LEADERS | 271 |