Literature
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The Difficulty of Crossing a Field by Ambrose Bierce
One morning in July, 1854, a planter named Williamson, living six miles from Selma, Alabama, was sitting with his wife…
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The Dog and the Bees by Ambrose Bierce
Bierce’s amusing morality tale was published in the anthology, Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor (1903), A dog being…
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The Eyes of the Panther by Ambrose Bierce
Between our convictions and our feelings there is no good understanding.IONE DOES NOT ALWAYS MARRY WHEN INSANE A man and…
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The Famous Gilson Request by Ambrose Bierce
It was rough on Gilson. Such was the terse, cold, but not altogether unsympathetic judgment of the better public opinion…
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The Haunted Valley by Ambrose Bierce
I. How Trees Are Felled in ChinaA half-mile north from Jo. Dunfer’s, on the road from Hutton’s to Mexican Hill,…
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The Hypnotist by Ambrose Bierce
By those of my friends who happen to know that I sometimes amuse myself with hypnotism, mind reading and kindred…
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The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce
It is of veritabyll report, and attested of so many that there be noweof wyse and learned none to gaynsaye…
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The Man out of the Nose by Ambrose Bierce
At the intersection of two certain streets in that part of San Francisco known by the rather loosely applied name…
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The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even…
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The Mockingbird by Ambrose Bierce
The time, a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the early autumn of 1861. The place, a forest’s heart in the mountain…
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