Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Black Beetles in Amber
    Black Beetles in Amber
    Black Beetles in Amber
    Ebook424 pages2 hours

    Black Beetles in Amber

    By Ambrose Bierce

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1892
    Black Beetles in Amber
    Author

    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.

    Read more from Ambrose Bierce

    Related to Black Beetles in Amber

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Nick Laird

      Dec 15, 2017

      I was trying to write like an adult.I had children.I was at the end of something. As I waited at my table by the window for the coffee,I saw that the sirocco had depositeda scrim of dust on the sill overnight,and it was the dark red of powdered blood

      3 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Nov 1, 2018

      In a hotel in a small town in Norfolk I am listening to someonethrowing glass bottles into a metal bin: toss-shatter, toss-shatter.There are no other sounds; it’s a quiet afternoonbut the one tossing them has a sense of rhythm and I havea sense that

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Song Starts In My Body

      Nov 1, 2022

      I wanted to see her body. I’m aware it sounds strange, even lurid. What I wanted was to see her read her poetry, and her body reading it. Something about Rukeyser’s writing made me feel that she was at home in her flesh, and I wanted to see her lovin

      21 min read

    • Article

      Oh, Corona

      Jan 1, 2024

      Books The Lights by Ben Lerner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 128 pp., $26.00 (hardcover) According to the latest Times article on the qualitative merits of bot art, Ben Lerner has lent excerpts from his new poetry collection to a group of venture c

      7 min read

    • Article

      Alive In The Ice And Fire

      Nov 1, 2018

      A Conversation August, 2018 SUSAN STEWART As I read your books, including If You Have to Go, I am struck, as I’m sure any reader would be, by their existential immediacy. You write in time as you undergo time, taking up especially the unfolding of ev

      17 min read

    • Article

      If I Had a Sense of Beauty

      Dec 5, 2017

      If I Had a Sense of Beauty
      14 min read

    • Article

      Solving Riddles, Reading Poems

      Nov 28, 2017

      Solving Riddles, Reading Poems
      6 min read

    • Article

      HERNAN BAS New and Recent Work

      Dec 15, 2018

      HERNAN BAS New and Recent Work
      6 min read

    • Article

      In The Middle Of Even This: Poetry

      Jan 1, 2020

      To be brought from the bright schoolyard into the house:to stand by her bed like an animal stunned in the pen:against the grid of the quilt, her hand seemsstitched to the cuff of its sleeve—although he wantsmost urgently the hand to stroke his head,a

      7 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams

      Dec 15, 2017

      The masters are yet dead. Wanting to be human,I tried to rewrite The Waste Land. The canon’s reachcasts ruinous light. The masters’ pens breachthis page where, above, my own hand spectates. Babylonrisen, exorcism in reverse, whose nature upended now?

      6 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems by Geoffrey Hill

      Dec 15, 2018

      62. Why such irony in re the mystical context when a graph of even the most commonplace exchange would appear perplexed; when we drop out from the plainest statement in the posture of a bat? So, decide to make something of that, the style to resemble

      2 min read

    • Article

      Stop Hating on Adjectives!

      Jun 12, 2019

      A common admonition in creative writing pedagogy is, “Cut as many adjectives as possible.” I propose that this rule springs from mere prejudice. The post Stop Hating on Adjectives! appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Bird That Sang I Am

      Sep 1, 2021

      The Bird That Sang I Am
      19 min read

    • Article

      Apparition

      Mar 26, 2020

      Apparition
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Essay On Faith

      May 1, 2022

      exordium While sound and seaworthy, I confess a life of false confessions, false hearts, ample contempt for bench warrants charging me with failures to appear. Let what interest death’s elbow grease won’t erase compound, judgments sealed in my ova, m

      4 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Nov 1, 2018

      Our house in the 100-year flood plainflooded. They say thatfor another 800 years a hurricanelike this will not come. My internetis down and my smart phone hurts my thumbsarthritic. I’m running out of data.All my books are in boxes. Please referto my

      3 min read

    • Article

      Body Language

      Aug 14, 2019

      Body Language
      5 min read

    • Article

      Smeltzer the Musky Angler

      Oct 17, 2020

      Smeltzer the Musky Angler
      4 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Sep 3, 2019

      And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. —Ogden Nash, “Everybody Tells Me Everything,” The Face Is Familiar, 1941 Someone goes by wearing a

      3 min read

    • Article

      Must-Read Poetry: November 2020

      Nov 5, 2020

      Stop obsessively refreshing the New York Times's elections page, and check out these new books of poetry by Alice Quinn, Margaret Atwood, Yi Lei, Karina Borowicz, Valzhyna Mort, and Paul Celan. The post Must-Read Poetry: November 2020 appeared first

      6 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      This Is Not a Defense of Poetry

      Mar 30, 2017

      The following remarks were originally delivered at the the Oslo Poesifestival 2016. A defense of poetry is a contradiction in terms. The honor to speak this evening, which I accept with great humility, though inevitably unnerving, I will use to cont

      12 min read

    • Article

      What Kind of Angel: On Percy Shelley

      Nov 21, 2022

      Shelley saw himself as a conduit for the electricity of the universe. The post What Kind of Angel: On Percy Shelley appeared first on The Millions.

      15 min read

    • Article

      Six Poems

      Feb 28, 2023

      Dear C, At first Virgil’s poem is quite dull; equivocalnames of products at The Container Store: Elfa White Medium Drawer, Mesh NarrowRolling Cart (Medium Solution), Narrow Classic Mesh Box and the number of pirouetting starseach product attained. An

      5 min read

    Reviews for Black Beetles in Amber

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Black Beetles in Amber - Ambrose Bierce

      u1^book_preview_excerpt.html\rȑو[^:LG; 1M\l±EHbl\đi_u_d ShGQɓYE?}XZ/&}S|kʽoI;uISgRi#?Eemjب?}xJy?RX8̦"7|0%~U^j|sZΎ4"0ϦQE/^TZ>}6A3>ŒyI'ƊPXQڹYq$y"|wBQ? 5(dFӉ1OMH}oG7kӟ{c},݃w*Z{ zDj kuY[uSGu;g~x8A;T41ό>9D/nhhu3Ii-TPŮ4:IZ}[e j #_jz!E0 ߷Ͽ8J?{;멯 bi0*~ԉ|MÇl|_mu?/g[NTpPmxsPp>'*9f{QoE|Ok?ΥzW•_aĹz`1蚞Z]=XWP{ty?}VU0wڬ aǷ0r 1!Fvep B,TMt"oݾ4 DG[-GKAO> x>y9֘ ᢵynfCCy`+ߛ͇/s .˕,CUZP`P  4D4y+R`F_c+p"\ %T7ӛ뱏A).&3i7–+x"6*\/f}p//sȋ^0[0*[tN:PNbI0o'bNzTֲENa͠,֫𓿊oDk'tЮrD>1} 8SYf&АoWާc[x|0Q27˙vGg ;|r#Zobv$C~kĤMb' q8 Lgݬܑ|+w>.SqhƜ͠L.`9!vˣÑZ~ƭ knpASr S0^Go!e<Ԯ&h֘00i 19_psϨ\5K+ ҷQ@Y &pFik w)<7A`w9 V܀)]ҀN4е##Paxi7Ka&MϢ#{ U$@򢷖$,)ȉ{U+ Ѝ8[9ę/cs'^R r5`dV\j 1L3ùg@CGntAhfe0@C,ځ~t% ا`P`c:Z5)FK:ς~U"e&h8eZbEH6Mco"iNޗ[-]sqFz5>=~V/c/GdpϜnM%c{#FdI^2IwV1oO'C lg59sxl7gvstaϦ umyKJsj@*b5G#[o$JWT':^N qhȽM:'GVUN1imE슆b:gfR 212<䨸8 ^H3R{AnWueF*)-o;uQV/˸$\)WI3QSQbHB]WFP}k\ -S}x~Ga J}vɞMշÝ:Zul]\Mc8_J؏7ܺJNbaz\m_bst;/vë*#HKKGMyњim93Bnȩ ٻ)VcIЗj|@FW)WŮŭtoJTWE101yv*1%!y u GLeojbw(J =73ױ9*q.'!K%|]_|à!;>AOP)،q*TJkB&-iUskzl=δNRVJE4T}`FE"(1AUt%1שPEqi֡*06 n*gSzUpk1#Y3uz4?RkF4*w@"bUѣD7b(a{#(S]|4UMp֢tt`S[: 4oP3ew==5" HʈKӁωMFr?Y{(}}^&8V y1]4r=$maI& Xjֶw;^!@&'+JB=ę@t,$b|K1IHQU$,QH>ϱ3lt'Ib 4gnT5["/QGh悎+,MZDGuO%R%X&^K2N cNJ` hݮQI*gW6mTǦkԍDXQȆ-]#IL|锥U j@`m.Tp,I63}$KI7uj`|@7 M#ƵHK)%-0K6vȍZnW;` =逵+#[4XBH[Ms[ŝ"l4Ll9@i/F1l$b Cw`  1FZ*ȃ+(YgiT|%&zs\@DWrQ>`b$*Cz2YrJT7Zi)ŖloT-K{4ԁ=Osܴ[lqET%3ƘL"TP87%86,׿5햽/V;>)(xu]B0ꔖ,@BJ.-ۖ_ V m~FOp$1~V}۔N)%ۀ8Sɓ{ɔ{󶩯fvα/y61?Ix{kgϳ\k=m-O`Z#:!Hȴ'KGRc/ |c9H hIR~c'*3~6C\8} j/ 7ChL+:>U-e&΋ʭEU^T_bhnꨓ\Q$Zܭh.SZ~$f #%qc-Ie9)s(=?j8-n]%i5n@W 6Jo[ÃW89C;;R% %;ez~i}6"4h^ɑs[ƛdL[8QSs1-ˢ [Z yQ CZIP 7wM+ N{fN+| PNH4Dc]DҸ,[zKz1Xm]tE5H/P:Wh1K[);+Y-S.oT}-ٚ%ܗXeR6'k )^۲8,j@uub Rÿ3HRt ڷ:{Y՛9R`鱿_'w(vxӻZIe:h Ҕ=O~Li "bk6KjrE%H׫ڤQR2%fR*U^]z ҃r\Wj~S&]"aZfevtrJ 00VMT|B94 -, ٶ $a }UD( 4㠫KV/",NwpO| O:ԧmᇲЙdɽ':LzWrLc~^}HZ%]JFC:)^>]pw 9ls XnksjC7=)<E7;͐aLǙt>^o8jJڈ t.hRk5_}xԋ.~fNSg!Dq4Wsɂ]g̞Woĭ.ρ:#P58c$5ډ#ixTY\v"dҔH*["Op2A a@n`O>HV]3Q2@>2ZQ;=[.Hm; -u( hܻ34H}q߁lFimOZZ&l6 D[X$ps_?{y'ɻ^e}Pe蒤mZ(u 1D$Is{g%mlȱ=gs\e 8375OPԘ  $*Ca^nЄ6 _Irna<}oY-zg$#T.0kW2!q3D$2BoT#"7*M?]T~ب!6rڦA!! amcFӡbFu4yZH_uv (e&R*Qmz#y„u;t\ܘ ӿgk30%P![孭U<^%nu)"GHRGk.m+; [[}u:{vP;#' /f(i\}۾.Pk|{fl Z^5K5`WFY gG̓M֝."v"|z k LFSK`{.;)6)G{k?~c[ H/n]悠@Ȏ5+IJ.erD~Y=N'k0jb^[Iw깝:樼Ro$?xbpΩ'᥸ ‘~[l:JV|NX#'?~u {<=NUFRZG" 8?7_Ψq`$sosd-Jհk /\gRm^]V%mvw4v l,0lL2T6yw˾(Xާ`+!E mLJ+OyG,&JJtwHK= sA)^ MV"#:(\yi0Sbfn5 BϴF?"k?*\18(;o5.yqC| eu%7*#i̯"#Lv[Xp_)𢖄'“t$%:SºSDHwAGTj<lcYwrsFI}I$}ZKK8(&w|/DN%U J@!ϕiuz_t/]34^Eo,(.D2K+Zۃ {a(P!b^.L}P&[b<Q/)/T=UrA)r[&s^Qpݫ`F|[֏@é{ ,VK4כ"9Z >^3dp6%8]J_ݲ-0ygPrzs;ն^\޽"lk&H^^t}\{ik 5ɻv7ՖC;VYœgKyoLIbE3jk;69`f jjl:m?P. 5 !Ry^l}yn|(<,$H*& NWǟCýz餒 3R..k<(y;V|k>%7QVj?NEAN
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1