This comprehensive e Book presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 5100 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Devil’s Dictionary
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories
• The Damned Thing
• The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American
• The Collected Works of — Volume: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
• Can Such Things Be?
• Write It Right
• The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
• Fantastic Fables
• Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
• The Cynic’s Word Book
• The Collected Works of, Volume
• A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky
• The Dance of Death / by William Herman
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
• The Monk and The Hangman’s Daughter and Adolphe Danziger de Castro
• A Cynic Looks at Life
• The Letters of
• The Devil’s Dictionary
• The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays
• The Parenticide Club
• Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
• The Fiend’s Delight
• Black Beetles in Amber
• Shapes of Clay
• A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY
• AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
• CHICKAMAUGA
• A SON OF THE GODS
• ONE OF THE MISSING
• KILLED AT RESACA
• THE AFFAIR AT COULTER’S NOTCH
• THE COUP DE GRÂCE
• PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER
• AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS
• THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE
• ONE KIND OF OFFICER
• ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN
• GEORGE THURSTON
• THE MOCKING-BIRD
• CIVILIANS
• THE MAN OUT OF THE NOSE
• AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE
• THE FAMOUS GILSON BEQUEST
• THE APPLICANT
• A WATCHER BY THE DEAD
• THE MAN AND THE SNAKE
• A HOLY TERROR
• THE SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS
• THE BOARDED WINDOW
• A LADY FROM RED HORSE
• THE EYES OF THE PANTHER
• ASHES OF THE BEACON
• THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW
• THITHER
• SONS OF THE FAIR STAR
• AN INTERVIEW WITH GNARMAG-ZOTE
• THE TAMTONIANS
• MAROONED ON UG
• THE DOG IN GANGEWAG
• A CONFLAGRATION IN GHARGAROO
• AN EXECUTION IN BATRUGIA
• THE JUMJUM OF GOKEETLE-GUK
• THE KINGDOM OF TORTIRRA
• HITHER
• FOR THE AHKOOND
• JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR
• BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• ON A MOUNTAIN
• WHAT I SAW OF SHILOH
• A LITTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA
• THE CRIME AT PICKETT’S MILL
• FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE
• WHAT OCCURRED AT FRANKLIN
• ‘WAY DOWN IN ALABAM’
• WORKING FOR AN EMPRESS
• ACROSS THE PLAINS
• THE MIRAGE
• A SOLE SURVIVOR
• The Ways of Ghosts
Present at a Hanging
A Cold Greeting
A Wireless Message
An Arrest
Soldier-Folk
A Man with Two Lives
Three and One are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions
Some Haunted Houses
The Isle of Pines
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine on a House
At Old Man Eckert’s
The Spook House
The Other Lodgers
The Thing at Nolan
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
An Unfinished Race
Charles Ashmore’s Trail
Science to the Front
• NEGLIGIBLE TALES
A Bottomless Grave
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
The Widower Turmore
The City of the Gone Away
The Major’s Tale
Curried Cow
A Revolt of the Gods
The Baptism of Dobsho
The Race at Left Bower
The Failure of Hope & Wandel
Perry Chumly’s Eclipse
A Providential Intimation
Mr. Swiddler’s Flip-Flap
The Little Story
THE PARENTICIDE CLUB
My Favorite Murder
Oil of Dog
An Imperfect Conflagration
The Hypnotist
THE FOURTH ESTATE
Mr. Masthead, Journalist
Why I am not Editing ‘The Stinger’
Corrupting the Press
‘The Bubble Reputation’
THE OCEAN WAVE
A Shipwreckollection
The Captain of ‘The Camel’
The Man Overboard
A Cargo af Cat
‘ON WITH THE DANCE!’ A REVIEW
The Prude in Letters and Life
The Beating of the Blood
There are Corns in Egypt
A Reef in the Gabardine
Enter a Troupe of Ancients, Dancing
Cairo Revisited
Japan Wear and Bombay Ducks
In the Bottom of the Crucible
Counsel for the Defense
They all Dance
Lust, Quoth’a
Our Grandmothers’ Legs
o THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL
o CIVILIZATION
o THE GAME OF POLITICS
o SOME FEATURES OF THE LAW
o ARBITRATION
o INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT
o CRIME AND ITS CORRECTIVES
o THE DEATH PENALTY
o RELIGION
o IMMORTALITY
o OPPORTUNITY
o CHARITY
o EMANCIPATED WOMAN
o THE OPPOSING SEX
o THE AMERICAN SYCOPHANT
o A DISSERTATION ON DOGS
o THE ANCESTRAL BOND
o THE RIGHT TO WORK
o THE RIGHT TO TAKE ONESELF OFF
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, 1842 – 1914, was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil’s Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto ‘Nothing matters’, and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname ‘Bitter Bierce’.
Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of war.
In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, he disappeared without a trace.