Literature
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A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce
IIn an upper room of an unoccupied dwelling in the part of San Francisco known as North Beach lay the…
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A Wireless Message by Ambrose Bierce
An illustration for the story A Wireless Message by the author Ambrose BierceIn the summer of 1896 Mr. William Holt,…
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Beyond the Wall by Ambrose Bierce
Many years ago, on my way from Hongkong to New York, I passed a week in San Francisco. A long…
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Charles Ashmore’s Trail by Ambrose Bierce
The family of Christian Ashmore consisted of his wife, his mother, two grown daughters, and a son of sixteen years.…
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Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
“He had slept through it all, grasping his little wooden sword with perhaps a tighter clutch in unconscious sympathy with…
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Four Days in Dixie by Ambrose Bierce
During a part of the month of October, 1864, the Federal and Confederate armies of Sherman and Hood respectively, having…
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George Thurston by Ambrose Bierce
THREE INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A MANGeorge Thurston was a first lieutenant and aide-de-camp on the staff of Colonel…
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Haita The Shepherd by Ambrose Bierce
In the heart of Haita the illusions of youth had not been supplanted by those of age and experience. His…
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Jo. Dunfer. Done for. by Ambrose Bierce
I turned from it with indifference, and brushing away the leaves from the tablet of the dead pagan restored to…
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John Bartine’s Watch by Ambrose Bierce
A Story by a Physician‘The exact time? Good God! my friend, why do you insist? One would think — but…
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