Literature
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A Fruitless Assignment by Ambrose Bierce
Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial.…
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A Holy Terror by Ambrose Bierce
IThere was an entire lack of interest in the latest arrival at Hurdy-Gurdy. He was not even christened with the…
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A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
In this Civil War story, Carter Druse, a young soldier from a wealthy Virginia family elects to fight for the…
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A Jug Of Syrup by Ambrose Bierce
This narrative begins with the death of its hero. Silas Deemer died on the I6th day of July, 1863; and…
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A Lady From Redhorse by Ambrose Bierce
CORONADO, JUNE 20.I find myself more and more interested in him. It is not, I am sure, his–do you know…
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A Little of Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
The history of that awful struggle is well known–I have not the intention to record it here, but only to…
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A Man with Two Lives by Ambrose Bierce
Here is the queer story of David William Duck, related by himself. Duck is an old man living in Aurora,…
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An Adventure at Brownville by Ambrose Bierce
[1] This story was written in collaboration with Miss Ina Lillian Peterson, to whom is rightly due the credit for…
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An Affair of Outposts by Ambrose Bierce
“Prisoner, what is your name?”“As I am to lose it at daylight to-morrow morning it is hardly worth while concealing…
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An Arrest by Ambrose Bierce
Having murdered his brother-in-law, Orrin Brower of Kentucky was a fugitive from justice. From the county jail where he had…
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