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Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A satirical story, told through an exchange of letters, in which politicians appoint one of their number as a general and he is not at all fit for the job.

First published in the Wasp (San Francisco), December 26, 1885.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 349
November 1971 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales Ballantine Books Collection 114
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 349
1984 The Best of Ambrose Bierce Castle / Book Sales Omnibus 407
1988 Cover The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce Picador / Pan Books Omnibus 733
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection