Literature
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One Of The Missing by Ambrose Bierce
Jerome Searing, a private soldier of General Sherman’s army, then confronting the enemy at and about Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, turned…
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One Of Twins by Ambrose Bierce
A Letter found among the Papers of the late Mortimer Barr You ask me if in my experience as one…
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One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
One Summer Night (1893) is featured in our Gothic Literature Study Guide. The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did…
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Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce
“Prisoner, what is your name?” “As I am to lose it at daylight to-morrow morning it is hardly worth while…
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Present at a Hanging by Ambrose Bierce
An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler…
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Science to the Front by Ambrose Bierce
In connection with this subject of “mysterious disappearance” – of which every memory is stored with abundant example – it…
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Staley Fleming’s Hallucination by Ambrose Bierce
Of two men who were talking one was a physician. ‘I sent for you, Doctor,’ said the other, ‘but I…
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The Affair at Coulter’s Notch by Ambrose Bierce
The Affair at Coulter’s Notch is set in Virginia in the spring of 1862, a federal artillery battery’s captain is…
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The Applicant by Ambrose Bierce
Pushing his adventurous shins through the deep snow that had fallen overnight, and encouraged by the glee of his little…
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The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
The Boarded Window is one of the best regarded of Bierce’s stories. For teachers and students, here is a close…
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