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    The Damned Thing & Other Ambrose Bierce's Mysteries (4 Books in One Edition): 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): 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): Including An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Devil's Dictionary & Chickamauga
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    The Damned Thing & Other Ambrose Bierce's Mysteries (4 Books in One Edition): Including An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Devil's Dictionary & Chickamauga

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    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. 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. A group of soldiers is hanging a Southern farm owner for trying to stop Northern military movements across the Owl Creek Bridge. 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. 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. It offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk are neatly lampooned. Chickamauga was first published in 1889. It's about an innocent child who stumbles into unspeakable horror during the battle.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. He spoke out against oppression and supported civil and religious freedoms. He also wrote numerous Civil War stories from first-hand experience. Many of his works are ranked among other esteemed American authors' like Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMusaicum Books
    Release dateNov 15, 2017
    ISBN9788027231263
    The Damned Thing & Other Ambrose Bierce's Mysteries (4 Books in One Edition): Including An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Devil's Dictionary & Chickamauga
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    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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