Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting OK Publishingīy THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. Including An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Devil's Dictionary & Chickamauga The Damned Thing & Other Ambrose Bierce's Mysteries (4 Books in One Edition) Many of his works are ranked among other esteemed American authors' like Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. He also wrote numerous Civil War stories from first-hand experience. He spoke out against oppression and supported civil and religious freedoms. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. It's about an innocent child who stumbles into unspeakable horror during the battle.Īmbrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist.

It offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk are neatly lampooned. One of Bierce's most famous works is his much-quoted book, The Devil's Dictionary, originally a newspaper serialization which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. In the last moments of his life, the Southern prisoner dreams he has escaped and everything that happens in the story is really only the work of the prisoner's brain just before he dies.

A group of soldiers is hanging a Southern farm owner for trying to stop Northern military movements across the Owl Creek Bridge. An Occurrence at Owl takes place during the war of the 1860's between the American states of the North and the states of the South. The Damned Thing is a story focuses on how the human race takes their views of nature for granted, and how there may be things in the natural world that the human eye cannot see or the human ear cannot hear.

The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce