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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce - Volume 2

Ambrose Bierce

Book Overview: 

These stories (In the Midst of Life, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .er attempt to evade the menacing stare of the gun barrel. If he turned away his eyes an instant it was to look for assistance (although he could not see the ground on either side the ruin), and he permitted them to return, obedient to the imperative fascination. If he closed them it was from weariness, and instantly the poignant pain in his forehead—the prophecy and menace of the bullet—forced him to reopen them.

The tension of nerve and brain was too severe; nature came to his relief with intervals of unconsciousness. Reviving from one of these he became sensible of a sharp, smarting pain in his right hand, and when he worked his fingers together, or rubbed his palm with them, he could feel that they were wet and slippery. He could not see the hand, but he knew the sensation; it was running blood. In his delirium he had beaten it against the jagged fragments of the wreck, had clutched it fu. . . Read More

Community Reviews

If you’re wanting to read the nineteen Ambrose Bierce short stories that made up the original release of his 1891 collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, you’ll find six of them, all Civilians, missing from this Penguin anthology, but you’ll get an additional 23 the author and his publishers add

Short review: A fascinating collection of Tales from one of America's most underrated authors.

Very Long review: Ambrose Bierce was certainly an interesting author. His style is unique and satirical yet biting at times. He is also criminally underrated and virtually unknown despite frequenting the sa

Ambrose Bierce
A Horsemen in the Sky
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Son of the Gods
Killed at Resaca
A Tough Tussle
Affair at Coulter’s Notce
The Coupe de Grace
A Resumed Identity
The Man and the Snake
Moxon's Master-it’s about robots before robots were really a thing
The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch-
“May I ask

There were some good stories in this collection and some stinkers. Many of the stories will give you the chills and make you hair stand on end. Bierce in a writer that is not to be missed.

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