Black Beetles in Amber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bierce, Ambrose.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though he is today best remembered for his acerbic satire, American writer Ambrose Bierce had a surprisingly broad range as a writer. Black Beetles in Amber is a collection of Bierce's poetry, which ranges from humorous verse to hauntingly tender lyrics.

Contents:

Title; Contents; In Explanation; The Key Note; Cain; An Obituarian; A Commuted Sentence; A Lifted Finger; Two Statesmen; Matter for Gratitude; Three Kinds of a Rogue; A Man; Y'e Foe to Cathaye; Samuel Shortridge; Surprised; Posterity's Award; An Art Critic; The Spirit of a Sponge; Ornithanthropos; To E.S. Salomon; Dennis Kearney; Finis Æternitatis; The Veteran; An ""Exhibit""; The Transmigrations of a Soul; An Actor; Famine's Realm; The Mackaiad; A Song in Praise; A Poet's Father; A Coward; To My Liars; ""Phil"" Crimmins; Codex Honoris; To W.H.L.B.; Emancipation; Johndonkey; Hell

By False PretensesLucifer of the Torch; The ""Whirligig of Time""; A Railroad Lackey; The Legatee; ""Died of a Rose""; A Literary Hangman; At the Eleventh Hour; A Controversialist; Mendax; The Retrospective Bird; The Oakland Dog; The Unfallen Brave; A Celebrated Case; Couplets; A Retort; A Vision of Resurrection; Master of Three Arts; Thersites; A Society Leader; Expositor Veritatis; To ""Colonel"" Dan. Burns; George A. Knight; Unarmed; A Political Violet; The Subdued Editor; ""Black Bart, Po8""; A ""Scion of Nobility""; The Night of Election; The Convicts' Ball; A Prayer; To One Detested

The Boss's ChoiceA Merciful Governor; An Interpretation; A Soaring Toad; An Undress Uniform; The Perverted Village; Mr. Sheets; A Jack-at-All-Views; My Lord Poet; To the Fool-Killer; One and One Are Two; Montague Leverson; The Woful Tale of Mr. Peters; Twin Unworthies; Another Plan; A Political Apostate; Tinker Dick; Bats in Sunshine; A Word to the Unwise; On the Platform; A Dampened Ardor; Adair Welcker, Poet; To a Word-Warrior; A Culinary Candidate; The Oleomargarine Man; Genesis; Llewellen Powell; The Sunset Gun; The ""Viduate Dame""; Four of a Kind; Reconciliation; A Vision of Climate

A ""Mass"" MeetingFor President, Leland Stanford; For Mayor; A Cheating Preacher; A Crocodile; The American Party; Uncoloneled; The Gates Ajar; Tidings of Good; Arboriculture; A Silurian Holiday; Rejected; Judex Judicatus; On the Wedding of an Aëronaut; A Hasty Inference; A Voluptuary; Ad Cattonum; The National Guardsman; The Barking Weasel; A Rear Elevation; In Upper San Francisco; Nimrod; Censor Literarum; Borrowed Brains; The Fyghtynge Seventh; Indicted; Over the Border; One Judge; To an Insolent Attorney; Accepted; A Promised Fast Train; One of the Saints; A Military Incident

Substance Versus ShadowThe Committee on Public Morals; California; De Young-A Prophecy; To Either; Disappointment; The Valley of the Shadow of Theft; Down Among the Dead Men; The Last Man; Arbor Day; The Piute; Fame; One of the Redeemed; A Critic; A Question of Eligibility; Fleet Strother; Californian Summer Pictures; Slander; James L. Flood; Four Candidates for Senator; A Growler; Ad Moodium; An Epitaph; A Spade; The Van Nessiad; A Fish Commissioner; To a Stray Dog; In His Hand; A Demagogue; Ignis Fatuus; From Top to Bottom; An Idler; The Dead King; A Patter Song; A Caller

The Shafter Shafted

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77653-730-0

OCLC:

881608090