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)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs 12 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
26A Cow-County Pleasantry
2SOME FICTION
27The Optimist, and What He Died Of
3“One More Unfortunate.”
28The Root of Education
4The Strong Young Man of Colusa.
29Retribution
5The Glad New Year.
30The Faithful Wife.
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6The Late Dowling, Senior
31Margaret the Childless
7“Love’s Labour Lost”
32The Discomfited Demon
8A Comforter
33The Mistake of a Life
9Little Isaac
34L. S.
10The Heels of Her
35The Baffled Asian
11A Tale of Two Feet
36TALL TALK
12The Scolliver Pig
37A Call to Dinner
13Mr. Hunker’s Mourner
38On Death and Immortality
14A Bit of Chivalry
39Music—Muscular and Mechanical
15The Head of the Family
40The Good Young Man
16Deathbed Repentance
41The Average Parson
17The New Church that was not Built
42Did We Eat One Another?
18A Tale of the Great Quake
43Your Friend’s Friend
19Johnny
44Le Diable est aux Vaches.
20The Child’s Provider
45Angels and Angles
21Boys who Began Wrong
46A Wingless Insect
22A Kansas Incident
47Pork on the Hoof
23Mr. Grile’s Girl
48The Young Person
24His Railway
49A Certain Popular Fallacy
25Mr. Gish Makes a Present
50Pastoral Journalism
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