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Fantastic Fables
Ambrose Bierce
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“Let the prisoner be discharged,” said the Judge; “a man who has no enemies has no friends. The courts are not for such.”
The Alderman and the Raccoon“I see quite a number of rings on your tail,” said an Alderman to a Raccoon that he met in a zoölogical garden.
“Yes,” replied the Raccoon, “and I hear quite a number of tales on your ring.”
The Alderman, being of a sensitive, retiring disposition, shrank from further comparison, and, strolling to another part of the garden, stole the camel.
The Flying-MachineAn Ingenious Man who had built a flying-machine invited a great concourse of people to see it go up. At the appointed moment, everything being ready, he boarded the car and turned on the power. The machine immediately broke through the massive substructure upon which it was builded, and sank out of sight into the earth, the aeronaut spr. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Boy he really hated the Women’s Press Association
Witty. Sarcastic. Acerbic. Smart.
This book was written in 1898 and comprises 245 fantastic fables from Ambrose Bierce.
These tales lampoon greedy politicians, judges, holy men, poets and many others.
I would suggest the meaning in some of the stories is connected to the era in which the book was written and so might not mean too mu
While it's comforting, in a way, to know that the politics of the past was just as crazy and corrupt as what we're going through today, that's most of what this book has going for it. In many cases, it seems like the author was trying to be overly cleaver at the expense of clarity. Also, some of the
Since Sunday I’ve been leafing through this little book. I don’t say “reading” because I’m not reading it from cover to cover, because it’s just not possible. Not because it’s too difficult or anything like that. It’s just… Uninteresting. I can’t quite remember why I bought it. Probably because it c
Hay pocos autores de los que compro todo lo que se publica, a veces sólo porque hay una antología que trae un relato inédito y con eso es suficiente. Es el caso con Bierce, con esta estupenda antología de Alianza que no tiene desperdicio y que aunque habré leído ya (casi) todas estas fábulas la trad