In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

by Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose G. Bierce

Overview

Some of the most chilling and macabre tales in the English language can be attributed to American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. His books include "Can Such Things Be: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural", as well as "The Devil's Dictionary". He has also penned scathing views of frontier life and its lawlessness, and the most caustic treatises on war.

"In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" represents Bierce's short stories written in and around the time of the Civil War. These include "A Horseman in the Sky", "Chickamauga", "The Applicant", "A Holy Terror", "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"-- perhaps his most famous story of all,-- and 21 other disturbing tales. Their message about the horrors of war lives on vividly to this day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806505510
Publisher:	Kensington
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	683,999
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Ambrose Bierce (1842–ca. 1914), American journalist, short-story writer, and poet, was born in Ohio, served in the Civil War, and then settled in San Francisco. He wrote for Hearst’s Examiner, his wit and satire making him the literary dictator of the Pacific coast and strongly influencing many writers. He disappeared into war-torn Mexico in 1913.

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