Length4h 12m
About this audiobook
A collection of essays, stories, poems and reflections, previously printed in American journals. Bierce has created a snapshot of journalism in the United States that is full of wit, gloom and everything in between. (Google)
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
39Music—Muscular and Mechanical
2SOME FICTION
40The Good Young Man
3“One More Unfortunate.”
41The Average Parson
4The Strong Young Man of Colusa.
42Did We Eat One Another?
5The Glad New Year.
43Your Friend’s Friend
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6The Late Dowling, Senior
44Le Diable est aux Vaches.
7“Love’s Labour Lost”
45Angels and Angles
8A Comforter
46A Wingless Insect
9Little Isaac
47Pork on the Hoof
10The Heels of Her
48The Young Person
11A Tale of Two Feet
49A Certain Popular Fallacy
12The Scolliver Pig
50Pastoral Journalism
13Mr. Hunker’s Mourner
51Mendicity’s Mistake
14A Bit of Chivalry
52Insects.
15The Head of the Family
53Picnicking considered as a Mistake
16Deathbed Repentance
54Thanksgiving Day
17The New Church that was not Built
55Flogging
18A Tale of the Great Quake
56Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press
19Johnny
57Charity
20The Child’s Provider
58The Study of Human Nature
21Boys who Began Wrong
59Additional Talk—Done in the Country
22A Kansas Incident
60CURRENT JOURNALINGS
23Mr. Grile’s Girl
61OBITUARY NOTICES
24His Railway
62CHRISTIANS
25Mr. Gish Makes a Present
63PAGANS
26A Cow-County Pleasantry
64MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL
27The Optimist, and What He Died Of
65LAUGHORISMS
28The Root of Education
66“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.
29Retribution
67POESY
30The Faithful Wife.
68Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus
31Margaret the Childless
69Epitaph on George Francis Train
32The Discomfited Demon
70Jerusalem, Old and New
33The Mistake of a Life
71Communing with Nature
34L. S.
72Conservatism and Progress
35The Baffled Asian
73Inter Arma Silent Leges
36TALL TALK
74Quintessence
37A Call to Dinner
75Resurgam
38On Death and Immortality
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