| 1 |
Introduction (The Devil's Advocate: An Ambrose Bierce Reader)
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Brian St. Pierre
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Essay
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| 16 |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 24 |
Chickamauga
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 29 |
One of the Missing
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 38 |
Killed at Resaca
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 48 |
Bancroft's Library
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 63 |
The Mangle of Satire
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 64 |
Newspaper War
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 66 |
The Pride of the Press
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 67 |
The Transmigrations of a Soul
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Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 69 |
Arthur McEwen
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Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 74 |
The Ox and the Ass
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 78 |
Bret Harte: The Editor
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 79 |
The Eastern Literary Conspiracy
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 81 |
The Ineffable Oscar Wilde
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 84 |
To Elevate the Stage
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 85 |
The American Chair
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 93 |
Again
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 107 |
Religious Progress
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 108 |
Born Again—and Again
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 112 |
Sunday in San Francisco
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 114 |
Merit in Suicide
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 117 |
A Dubious Vindication
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 138 |
Another Aspirant
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 139 |
Philosopher Bimm
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Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 141 |
The Hesitating Veteran
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 142 |
Mourning Glories
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 143 |
Peace on Earth
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 147 |
The Ingenious Patriot
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 153 |
Disintroductions
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 164 |
The Man and the Snake
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 170 |
The Death of Halpin Frayser
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 182 |
One Summer Night
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 183 |
The Moonlit Road
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 191 |
Moxon's Master
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 199 |
The Damned Thing
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 206 |
Haïta the Shepherd
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 210 |
My Favorite Murder
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 216 |
Oil of Dog
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 220 |
Write It Right
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Brian St. Pierre
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Essay
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| 221 |
Write It Right
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 100|100.1 |
Religion and Religiosity
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Brian St. Pierre
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Essay
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| 100|100.2 |
Saint and Sinner
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 100|100.3 |
Arma Virumque
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Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 101|101.1 |
Religion of Error
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 101|101.2 |
A Constructor
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Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 101|101.3 |
A Smiling Idol
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 102|102.1 |
The Foolish Woman
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 102|102.2 |
The Old Man and the Pupil
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 102|102.3 |
Theory and Practice
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 103|103.1 |
Eliminating Wickedness
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 103|103.2 |
Inglorious Soup
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 104|104.1 |
Theological Questions Answered
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 104|104.2 |
The Practical Parson
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 105|105.1 |
Farewell and Amen
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 105|105.2 |
Bible Belts
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 106|106.1 |
The Show Business
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 106|106.2 |
The Provocations of the Pious
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 109|109.1 |
Faithful Followers
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 109|109.2 |
A Radical Parallel
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 109|109.3 |
Christianity in Action
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 110|110.1 |
Educating the Heathens
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 110|110.2 |
More Christianity in Action
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 110|110.3 |
School Prayer
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 110|110.4 |
Scudder Comes
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 111|111.1 |
Scudder Evolves
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 111|111.2 |
Scudder Anticipates
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 111|111.3 |
Scudder Departs
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 113|113.1 |
Sunday in San Francisco, Continued
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 113|113.2 |
On Common Sense
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Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 115|115.1 |
The Grace of God
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 115|115.2 |
The Late Lamented
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 119|119.1 |
Lawyers and Judges
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Brian St. Pierre
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Essay
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| 119|119.2 |
The Deceased and His Heirs
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Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 11|11.1 |
Stories of the Civil War
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Brian St. Pierre
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Essay
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| 11|11.2 |
A Horseman in the Sky
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Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 120|120.1 |
An Error
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Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 120|120.2 |
A Defective Petition
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 120|120.3 |
The Justice and His Accuser
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 120|120.4 |
A Hasty Settlement
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 121|121.1 |
Unexpounded
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Poem
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| 121|121.2 |
The No Case
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 122|122.1 |
The Party Over There
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 122|122.2 |
The Disinterested Arbiter
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 122|122.3 |
Murderous Madness
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 123|123.1 |
A Capital Crime
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 123|123.2 |
Judicial Homicide
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Short Story
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| 124|124.1 |
Irreproachable Evidence
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 124|124.2 |
Do You Swear, Too?
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 126|126.1 |
Politics and Politicians
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Brian St. Pierre
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Essay
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| 126|126.2 |
A Rational Anthem
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 127|127.1 |
An Intrusion
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 127|127.2 |
The Moral Principle and the Material Interest
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 128|128.1 |
Congress and the People
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 128|128.2 |
Alarm and Pride
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 128|128.3 |
Orderly Progression
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 128|128.4 |
The Boys and the Frogs
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 129|129.1 |
Cause and Effect
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 129|129.2 |
Six and One
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 129|129.3 |
The Politicians
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 130|130.1 |
The Treasury and the Arms
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 130|130.2 |
Art
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
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| 130|130.3 |
The Legislator and the Citizen
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 131|131.1 |
The Member and the Soap
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 131|131.2 |
A Statesman
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 131|131.3 |
The Farmer's Friend
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 132|132.1 |
The Hares and the Frogs
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 132|132.2 |
Differences Resolved
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 132|132.3 |
Republicans All
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 133|133.1 |
The Right to Rule
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 133|133.2 |
The Citizen and the Snakes
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 133|133.3 |
Rascals Rule
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 134|134.1 |
The Pentitent Thief
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 134|134.2 |
The Electoral Process
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 135|135.1 |
Honest Differences
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 135|135.2 |
The Kangaroo and the Zebra
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 135|135.3 |
On Socialism
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 136|136.1 |
Enlightened Self-Interest
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 136|136.2 |
Sheep and Lion
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 137|137.1 |
The City of Political Distinction
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 137|137.2 |
Metempsychosis
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 140|140.1 |
Detected
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
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| 140|140.2 |
The Bumbo of Jiam
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 144|144.1 |
On Deterrence
|
Ambrose Bierce
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Essay
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| 144|144.2 |
The Statue at Bumboogle
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 145|145.1 |
Business and Other Social Contracts
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
|
| 145|145.2 |
Business
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 146|146.1 |
A Prophet of Evil
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 146|146.2 |
The Compassionate Physician
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 148|148.1 |
The Belly and the Members
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 148|148.2 |
The Wolf and the Lamb
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 148|148.3 |
Financial News
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
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| 148|148.4 |
Compliance
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 149|149.1 |
A Needless Labour
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 149|149.2 |
The Man and the Bird
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 149|149.3 |
A Matter of Method
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 149|149.4 |
The Lion and the Mouse
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 150|150.1 |
The Overlooked Factor
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 150|150.2 |
The Sportsman and the Squirrel
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 150|150.3 |
The Tail of the Sphinx
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 151|151.1 |
The Business of Business
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 151|151.2 |
Prosperous Penitents
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 155|155.1 |
Stories of the Supernatural
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
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| 155|155.2 |
A Watcher by the Dead
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 237|237.1 |
The Devil's Dictionary
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
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| 237|237.2 |
The Devil's Dictionary
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Nonfiction
|
| 324|324.1 |
Coda: On Suicide
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
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| 324|324.2 |
Taking Oneself Off
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 44|44.1 |
Californians
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
|
| 44|44.2 |
The Returned Californian
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 44|44.3 |
The Tried Assassin
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 45|45.1 |
Very Lucky Baldwin
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 45|45.2 |
Mike deYoung's Ambition
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 45|45.3 |
To an Aspirant
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 45|45.4 |
California Pioneer's Smile
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 46|46.1 |
Board of Eduction Boring
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 46|46.2 |
Board of Education Purging
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 47|47.1 |
Co-education Coercion
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 47|47.2 |
The Political Horizon
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 47|47.3 |
Education's Benefits
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 49|49.1 |
Reconciliation
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 49|49.2 |
The Genesis of Crime
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 49|49.3 |
A Trencher-Knight
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 50|50.1 |
Marshall's Relier
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 50|50.2 |
Genesis
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 51|51.1 |
A Kit
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 51|51.2 |
A Culinary Challenge
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 53|53.1 |
Journalism, By and Large
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
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| 53|53.2 |
The Highwayman and the Traveler
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 54|54.1 |
The Prerogative of Might
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 54|54.2 |
Twin Intolerables
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 54|54.3 |
Wolf and Crane
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 55|55.1 |
A Causeway
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 55|55.2 |
Something in the Papers
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 56|56.1 |
The Fabulist and the Animals
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 56|56.2 |
The Christian Serpent
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 57|57.1 |
The Poet's Doom
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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| 57|57.2 |
The Scurril Press
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 59|59.1 |
The Shame of Satire
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 59|59.2 |
An Editorial Paradox
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 60|60.1 |
The Treatment of Drunkards
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 60|60.2 |
Editorial Truths
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 61|61.1 |
Editor's Prescription Denied
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 61|61.2 |
On Encouraging Amateurs
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 61|61.3 |
The Editor and the Monkey
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 62|62.1 |
Literally and Habitually
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
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| 62|62.2 |
Art for Whose Sake?
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 65|65.1 |
Decanting Journalism
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 65|65.2 |
Decanting Still Necessary
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 65|65.3 |
The Value of the Press
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 70|70.1 |
Literature and the Arts
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
|
| 70|70.2 |
The Pavoir
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 71|71.1 |
Fortune and the Fabulist
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 71|71.2 |
The Critics
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 71|71.3 |
On Putting One's Hand Into One's Belly
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 73|73.1 |
The Humorist
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 73|73.2 |
A Dilemma
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 75|75.1 |
The Powerless Poet
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 75|75.2 |
Mark Twain Marries
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 76|76.1 |
Mark Twain Retires
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 76|76.2 |
Mark Twain Prospers
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 77|77.1 |
Mark Twain Holds Forth
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 77|77.2 |
Bret Harte: The Professor
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 82|82.1 |
To Oscar Wilde
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 82|82.2 |
With a Book
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 82|82.3 |
In Warning
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 87|87.1 |
Women
|
Brian St. Pierre
|
Essay
|
| 87|87.2 |
Epigrams on Women
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 88|88.1 |
The Crimson Candle
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 88|88.2 |
The Reform School Board
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 89|89.1 |
Matrimonial Rights
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 89|89.2 |
The Devoted Widow
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 89|89.3 |
The Tourist Trade
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Essay
|
| 90|90.1 |
A Weary Echo
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 90|90.1 |
The Inconsolable Widow
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 90|90.2 |
At Heaven's Gate
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 90|90.2 |
Wanted: One Virgin
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 90|90.3 |
Bereavement
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 92|92.1 |
Disappointment
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 92|92.2 |
Nurse Wanted
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
|
| 93|93.1 |
Justice
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Poem
|
| 93|93.2 |
Curried Cow
|
Ambrose Bierce
|
Short Story
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