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The Civil War short stories of Ambrose Bierce / compiled with a foreword by Ernest Jerome Hopkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War stories, American.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- War stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 139 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1988, c1970.
- Summary:
- In "The Devil's Dictionary" Ambrose Bierce defined "war" as "a by-product of the arts of peace." A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about "courage," "honor," and "glory" on the battlefield. These stories form one of the great antiwar statements in American literature. Included here are the classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," "The Mocking Bird," "The Coup de Grâ ce," "Parker Anderson," "Philosopher," and other stories celebrated for their intensity, startling insight, and mastery of form.
- Notes:
- "A Bison book."
- ISBN:
- 0803260873
- OCLC:
- 16866720
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