Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
and Other Stories
$35.21
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2000
Summary
Questing after Pancho Villa’s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him The Devil’s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction.
This new collection gathers some of Bierce’s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ and ‘Chickamauga’, his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of supernatural horror. Reminiscent of Poe, these stories are marked by a sardon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140437560 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140437568 |
| Author: | Ambrose Bierce, Tom Quirk |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Ambrose Bierce
Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain’s Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce’s Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain—A Study of the Short Fiction (1997), and Nothing Abstract—Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).
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