The Top 10 Short Stories - Ambrose Bierce: The top ten short stories written by American Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce.
Written by Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by Christopher Ragland and Ghizela Rowe
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About this audiobook
In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?
The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.
Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.
Ambrose Bierce is an author whose words take us one way and then send us another. These miniature masterpieces all have a central truth and plausibility that seems to vanish in an ending that can be anything from wry, to shocking to hallucinatory.
01 - The Top 10 - Ambrose Bierce - An Introduction
02 - Ambrose Bierce - An Introduction
03 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
04 - A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
05 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce
06 - Chickamauga by Ambrose Bierce
07 - The Affair At Coulter's Creek by Ambrose Bierce
08 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
09 - The Story of a Conscience by Ambrose Bierce
10 - The Coup de Grace by Ambrose Bierce
11 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
12 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Meigs County, Ohio, Bierce was raised Indiana in a poor family who treasured literature and extolled the value of education. Despite this, he left school at 15 to work as a printer’s apprentice, otherwise known as a “devil”, for the Northern Indianan, an abolitionist newspaper. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union infantry and was present at some of the conflict’s most harrowing events, including the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. During the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in 1864, Bierce—by then a lieutenant—suffered a serious brain injury and was discharged the following year. After a brief re-enlistment, he resigned from the Army and settled in San Francisco, where he worked for years as a newspaper editor and crime reporter. In addition to his career in journalism, Bierce wrote a series of realist stories including “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Chickamauga,” which depict the brutalities of warfare while emphasizing the psychological implications of violence. In 1906, he published The Devil’s Dictionary, a satirical dictionary compiled from numerous installments written over several decades for newspapers and magazines. In 1913, he accompanied Pancho Villa’s army as an observer of the Mexican Revolution and disappeared without a trace at the age of 71.
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