Civil War Stories
Sixteen dark and vivid selections by great satirist and short-story writer. "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," "Four Days in Dixie" and 10 more. Masterly tales offer excellent examples of Bierce's dark...
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Sixteen dark and vivid selections by great satirist and short-story writer. "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," "Four Days in Dixie" and 10 more. Masterly tales offer excellent examples of Bierce's dark pessimism and storytelling power. Note.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486280387 (0486280381)
ASIN: 486280381
Publish date: July 13th 1994
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
History,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
War,
American History,
Short Stories,
Military History,
Civil War,
American Civil War,
American Fiction
Nope ... not the kind of book for me :p
Some books really give you a feel for a specific time and place. "The Tale of Two Cities" does that for me with the French Revolution. It's not so much that it gives a sophisticated intellectual understanding as that it gives a vivid impression of what it may have been like to live there at that t...