The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 5100 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Devil's Dictionary • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Famous Modern Ghost Stories • The Damned Thing • The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all nations: American • The Collected Works of – Volume: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians • Can Such Things Be? • Write It Right • The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Fantastic Fables • Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • The Cynic's Word Book • The Collected Works of, Volume • A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky • The Dance of Death / by William Herman • Cobwebs from an Empty Skull • The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter and Adolphe Danziger de Castro • A Cynic Looks at Life • The Letters of • The Devil's Dictionary • The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays • The Parenticide Club • Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • The Fiend's Delight • Black Beetles in Amber • Shapes of Clay • A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY • AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE • CHICKAMAUGA • A SON OF THE GODS • ONE OF THE MISSING • KILLED AT RESACA • THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH • THE COUP DE GRÂCE • PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER • AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS • THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE • ONE KIND OF OFFICER • ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN • GEORGE THURSTON • THE MOCKING-BIRD • CIVILIANS • THE MAN OUT OF THE NOSE • AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE • THE FAMOUS GILSON BEQUEST • THE APPLICANT • A WATCHER BY THE DEAD • THE MAN AND THE SNAKE • A HOLY TERROR • THE SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS • THE BOARDED WINDOW • A LADY FROM RED HORSE • THE EYES OF THE PANTHER • ASHES OF THE BEACON • THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW • THITHER • SONS OF THE FAIR STAR • AN INTERVIEW WITH GNARMAG-ZOTE • THE TAMTONIANS • MAROONED ON UG • THE DOG IN GANGEWAG • A CONFLAGRATION IN GHARGAROO • AN EXECUTION IN BATRUGIA • THE JUMJUM OF GOKEETLE-GUK • THE KINGDOM OF TORTIRRA • HITHER • FOR THE AHKOOND • JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR • BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY • ON A MOUNTAIN • WHAT I SAW OF SHILOH • A LITTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA • THE CRIME AT PICKETT’S MILL • FOUR DAYS IN DIXIE • WHAT OCCURRED AT FRANKLIN • ‘WAY DOWN IN ALABAM’ • WORKING FOR AN EMPRESS • ACROSS THE PLAINS • THE MIRAGE • A SOLE SURVIVOR • The Ways 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 The Isle of Pines A Fruitless Assignment A Vine on a House At Old Man Eckert’s The Spook House The Other Lodgers The Thing at Nolan The Difficulty of Crossing a Field An Unfinished Race Charles Ashmore’s Trail Science to the Front • NEGLIGIBLE TALES A Bottomless Grave Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General The Widower Turmore The City of the Gone Away The Major's Tale 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 THE PARENTICIDE CLUB My Favorite Murder Oil of Dog An Imperfect Conflagration The Hypnotist THE FOURTH ESTATE Mr. Masthead, Journalist Why I am not Editing «The Stinger» Corrupting the Press "The Bubble Reputation" THE OCEAN WAVE A Shipwreckollection The Captain of «The Camel» The Man Overboard A Cargo af Cat "ON WITH THE DANCE!" A REVIEW The Prude in Letters and Life The Beating of the Blood There are Corns in Egypt A Reef in the Gabardine Enter a Troupe of Ancients, Dancing Cairo Revisited Japan Wear and Bombay Ducks In the Bottom of the Crucible Counsel for the Defense They all Dance Lust, Quoth'a Our Grandmothers' Legs o THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL o CIVILIZATION o THE GAME OF POLITICS o SOME FEATURES OF THE LAW o ARBITRATION o INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT o CRIME AND ITS CORRECTIVES o THE DEATH PENALTY o RELIGION o IMMORTALITY o OPPORTUNITY o CHARITY o EMANCIPATED WOMAN o THE OPPOSING SEX o THE AMERICAN SYCOPHANT o A DISSERTATION ON DOGS o THE ANCESTRAL BOND o THE RIGHT TO WORK o THE RIGHT TO TAKE ONESELF OFF