Ambrose Bierce audiobooks
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by Ambrose BierceWritten during American Civil War, A dead Man’s dream or An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is top of the short stories which brings out Ambrose Bierce's unique style of narration which abandon linear narration in favor of internal mind. Confederate sympathizer Peyton Farquhar has been trapped by a soldier who made him to visit Owl Creek Bridge sta..
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary is a wicked definition of 1600 words in a satirical tone written by American literary critic Ambrose Bierce, which are his own collection of early journalistic articles written by him when he was working as a columnist at San Francisco News Letter...
Can Such Things Be?
by Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car; he was a renter who never owned his own home. He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light: and in the end he rode, with all of his possessions, on a rented horse into the Mexican desert to join Pancho Villa -- never to return.Can Such Things Be?Once William Randolph Hearst -- Bierce's..
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
by Ambrose BierceThe matter of which this volume is composed appeared originally in the columns of "FUN," when the wisdom of the Fables and the truth of the Tales tended to wholesomely diminish the levity of that jocund sheet. Their publication in a new form would seem to be a fitting occasion to say something as to their merit. Homer's "Iliad," it will be rem..
Cynic Looks At Life
by Ambrose BierceA collection of essays in which Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, including the death penalty, emancipated women, immortality, civilisation and more."The question "Does civilization civilize?" is a fine example of petitio principii, and decides itself in the affirmative; for civilization must needs do that from the doing of..