Author |
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? |
Title |
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 11 Antepenultimata
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Original Publication |
United States: The Neale Publishing Company,1911.
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Contents |
The shadow on the dial -- Civilization -- The game of politics -- A possible benefactor -- Warlike America -- Some features of the law -- Arbitration -- The gift o' gab -- Natura benigna -- Industrial discontent -- Writers of dialect -- Crime and its correctives -- On knowing one's business -- A trade of refuge -- The death penalty -- Religion -- Immortality -- A rolling continent -- Charity -- Emancipated woman -- The opposing sex -- A mad world -- The American sycophant -- Dog -- The ancestral bond -- The right to work -- Taking oneself off -- A monument to Adam -- Hypnotism -- At the drain of the wash-basin -- Gods in Chicago -- For last words -- The chair of little ease -- A ghost in the unmaking -- The turn of the tide -- Fat babies and fate -- Certain areas of our seamy side -- For brevity and clarity -- Genius as a provocation -- A bivouac of the dead.
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Credits |
Emmanuel Ackerman, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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Language |
English |
LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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Subject |
American literature
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Subject |
American essays
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Category |
Text |
EBook-No. |
66905 |
Release Date |
Dec 8, 2021 |
Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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