Description |
ix, 880 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Library of America ; 219
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Library of America ; 219.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
In the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians). Soldiers. A horseman in the sky ; An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ; Chickamauga ; A son of the gods ; One of the missing ; Killed at Resaca ; Affair at Coulter's Notch ; Coup de grâce ; Parker Adderson, philosopher ; An affair of outposts ; Story of a conscience ; One kind of officer ; One officer, one man ; George Thurston ; Mocking-bird -- Civilians. Man out of the nose ; An adventure at Brownville ; Famous Gilson bequest ; Applicant ; A watcher by the dead ; Man and the snake ; A holy terror ; Suitable surroundings ; Boarded window ; A lady from Redhorse ; Eyes of the panther -- |
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Can such things be? Can such things be? Death of Halpin Frayser ; Secret of Macarger's Gulch ; One summer night ; Moonlit road ; A diagnosis of death ; Moxon's master ; A tough tussle ; One of twins ; Haunted valley ; A jug of sirup ; Staley Fleming's hallucination ; A resumed identity ; A baby tramp ; Night-doings at "Deadman's" ; Beyond the wall ; A psychological shipwreck ; Middle tow of the right foot ; John Mortonson's funeral ; Realm of the undead ; John Bartine's watch ; Damned thing ; Haïta the shepherd ; An inhabitant of Carcosa ; Stranger -- |
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Way 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. Isle of pines ; A fruitless assignment ; A vine on a house ; At old man Eckert's ; Spook house ; Other lodgers ; Thing at Nolan -- "Mysterious disappearances". Difficulty of crossing a field ; An unfinished race ; Charles Ashmore's trail -- Devil's dictionary -- |
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Bits of autobiography. On a mountain ; What I saw of Shiloh ; A little of Chickamauga ; Crime at Pickett's Mill ; Four days in Dixie ; What occurred at Franklin ; 'Way down in Alabam' ; Working for an Empress ; Across the plains ; Mirage ; A sole survivor -- Selected stories. Mrs. Dennison's head ; Man overboard ; Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ; A bottomless grave ; For the Ahkhoond ; My favorite murder ; Oil of dog ; Ashes of the beacon. |
Subject |
Short stories, American -- 19th century.
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Short stories, American. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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Subject |
English language -- Dictionaries -- Humor.
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English language. |
Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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Humor.
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Subject |
English language -- Semantics -- Humor.
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English language -- Semantics. |
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Vocabulary -- Humor.
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Vocabulary. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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Humor.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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Added Author |
Joshi, S. T., 1958-
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Added Title |
Ambrose Bierce : the devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs |
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Devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs |
ISBN |
9781598531022 : $35.00 |
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1598531026 |
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