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This   carefully crafted ebook: "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (26 Stories:   includes Chickamauga + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The   Mocking-Bird)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and   detailed table of contents.
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories written by   Ambrose Bierce. Published in 1891, the 26 stories detail the lives of   soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. His famous story   "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is included in this   collection.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist,   journalist, short-story writer and satirist. His short stories are considered   among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on   his roots. Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many   of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic   views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter   Bierce."

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (26 Stories: includes Chickamauga + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Mocking-Bird)

Parues dans divers recueils américains dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, traduites dans divers volumes chez Grasset à partir de 1957, ces Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de Sécession rassemblent treize nouvelles consacrées à l'atrocité de la guerre civile américaine. Ambrose Bierce, lui-même vétéran de ce conflit qui reste à ce jour le plus meurtrier de l'histoire des Etats-Unis (Deuxième Guerre mondiale y compris), aborde les horreurs et les hasards des combats, avec un sang-froid qui en décuple l'épouvante. Dans " Chickamauga " , un enfant se retrouve par hasard au milieu d'un champ de bataille où il découvre des monceaux de corps parmi lesquels des agonisants qui l'observent. Dans " Une rude bagarre " , c'est un soldat terrifié qui est obligé de dormir à côté d'un cadavre. La peur de monter au front, d'affronter la mitraille, d'avancer sur un champ de bataille où s'abattent les obus, mais aussi l'arrogante élégance des officiers qui semble un dernier défi à la mort, les si beaux paysages hachés par la mitraille, peu d'écrivains ont montré de manière aussi saisissante ce qu'est réellement une guerre.

Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de Sécession

400 citations de philosophes méconnus

Dans ces douze contes, Ambrose Bierce a oublié son cynisme et sa misanthropie pour laisser la place à un sens profond de la misère humaine, une étude subtile du mécanisme de la peur, une incursion troublante dans le royaume du surnaturel. Ambrose Bierce compte au nombre de ceux pour lesquels écrire est un art difficile et qui mérite tous nos soins. Ce fossoyeur impénitent, ce familier de la mort, ce compagnon des ombres, est un des derniers classiques de la littérature mondiale.

Contes noirs

=In the heart of life 1: Stories of soldiers

Histoires de soldats : nouvelles

"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893. 

The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men have gathered around the battered corpse of Hugh Morgan to hold an inquest concerning his death.

What was it?

(Source: Wikipedia)

The Damned Thing - A Horror Short Story

Sa participation à la guerre civile américaine le convertit à une forme de scepticisme teinté de misanthropie qui ne fit que se renforcer au fil du temps. Plus tard, son métier de journaliste acheva de le débarrasser de ses dernières illusions. Une conscience aussi vive de l'hypocrisie et la bêtise humaines devait naturellement l'amener sur le terrain de l'humour, du grotesque et du macabre. Parodier les Fables d'Ésope, détourner le plus célèbre des esclaves phrygiens pour mieux défendre les principes stoïciens à la source de ses fables, permet à Bierce de joindre sa voix à celles des grands moralistes du passé. Qui aurait cru que la fable connaîtrait une seconde jeunesse au Far West ? Sans doute le temps est-il venu de redécouvrir ses ouvres de jeunesse sinon pour leur virtuosité littéraire, du moins pour leur humour hyperbolique, leur caractère transgressif et leur merveilleuse liberté de ton.

Les Fables de Zambri

Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world.

In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres. The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story.

Contents:

E. F. Benson

CATERPILLARS

THE SANCTUARY

THE THING IN THE HALL

THE TERROR BY NIGHT

Ambrose Bierce

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT

Algernon Blackwood

THE WILLOWS

Ulric Daubeny

THE SUMACH

Charles Dickens

THE SIGNAL-MAN

Arthur Conan Doyle

THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX

Lord Dunsany

DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER

William Fryer Harvey

ACROSS THE MOORS

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST

W. W. Jacobs

THE MONKEY'S PAW

Henry James

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Franz Kafka

IN THE PENAL COLONY

David H. Keller

THE THING IN THE CELLAR

Henry Kuttner

THE GRAVEYARD RATS

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

CARMILLA

H. P. Lovecraft

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

POLARIS

THE QUEST OF IRANON

THE RATS IN THE WALLS

A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

THE SHUNNED HOUSE

THE SILVER KEY

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST

THE STREET

THE TEMPLE

THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

THE TOMB

THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO

THE TREE

UNDER THE PYRAMIDS

THE VERY OLD FOLK

WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

Arthur Machen

THE GREAT GOD PAN

M. R. James

THE MEZZOTINT

THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL

THE ASH-TREE

NUMBER 13

COUNT MAGNUS

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

Vincent O'Sullivan

WHEN I WAS DEAD

Edgar Allan Poe

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

THE TELL-TALE HEART

Margaret Ronan

FINGER! FINGER!

Saki

GABRIEL-ERNEST

THE OPEN WINDOW

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En plein coeur de la vie ; histoires de soldats

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Oil Of Dog - Short Story

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Fiend's Delight (novella + short stories +   poetry)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
The Fiend's Delight, a compilation of Bierce's articles; essays, stories,   poems and reflection, was published in London in 1873 by John Camden Hotten   under the pseudonym "Dod Grile". This was Bierce's first book when   he lived and wrote in England from 1872 to 1875, contributing to Fun   magazine.
Ambrose Bierce (born June 24, 1842; assumed to have died sometime after   December 26, 1913) 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.
Content:
Some Fiction.
1. "One More Unfortunate."
2. The Strong Young Man of Colusa.
3. The Glad New Year.
4. The Late Dowling, Senior.
5. "Love's Labour Lost."
6. A Comforter.
7. Little Isaac.
8. The Heels of Her.
9. A Tale of Two Feet.
10. The Scolliver Pig.
11. Mr. Hunker's Mourner.
12. A Bit of Chivalry.
13. The Head of the Family.
14. Deathbed Repentance.
15. The New Church that was not Built.
16. A Tale of the Great Quake.
17. Johnny.
18. The Child's Provider.
19. Boys who Began Wrong.
20. A Kansas Incident.
21. Mr. Grile's Girl.
22. His Railway.
23. Mr. Gish Makes a Present.
24. A Cow-County Pleasantry.
25. The Optimist, and What He Died Of.
26. The Root of Education.
27. Retribution.
28. Margaret the Childless.
29. The Discomfited Demon.
30. The Mistake of a Life.
31. L. S.
32. The Baffled Asian.
Tall Talk.
1. A Call to Dinner.
2. On Death and Immortality.
3. Music-Muscular and Mechanical.
4. The Good Young Man.
5. The Average Parson.
6. Did We Eat One Another?
7. Your Friend's Friend.
8. Le Diable est aux Vaches.
9. Angels and Angles.
10. A Wingless Insect.
11. Pork on the Hoof.
12. The Young Person.
13. A Certain Popular Fallacy.
14. Pastoral Journalism.
15. Mendicity's Mistake.
16. Picnicking considered as a Mistake.
17. Thanksgiving Day.
18. Flogging.
19. Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press.
20. Charity.
21. The Study of Human Nature.
22. Additional Talk-Done in the Country.
Current Journalings.
Obituary Notices.
1. Christians.
2. Pagans.
Musings, Philosophical and Theological.
Laughorisms.
"Items" from the Press of Interior California.
Poesy.
1. Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus.
2. Epitaph on George Francis Train.
3. Jerusalem, Old and New.
4. Communing with Nature.
5. Conservatism and Progress.
6. Inter Arma Silent Leges.
7. Quintessence.
8. Resurgam.

The Fiend´s Delight (novella + short stories + poetry)

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)"   is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
This ebook is a collection of  rather   morbid and grotesques tales by Ambrose Bierce.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American satirist, critic,   poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories   often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and   vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter   Bierce".
Book content:
A Bottomless Grave
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
The Widower Turmore
The city of the Gone Away
The Major sTale
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

Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (né le 24 juin 1842 à Horse Cave Creek dans l'Ohio ; mort probablement en 1914, ou peut-être le 26 décembre 1913, dans la ville de Chihuahua au Mexique — où il a été vu pour la dernière fois) est un écrivain et journaliste américain.
Il est essentiellement connu comme l'auteur du Dictionnaire du diable et de nouvelles d'humour noir relevant fréquemment du genre fantastique,

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce

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