The Fiend's Delight (novella + short stories + poetry)
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This carefully crafted ebook: «The Fiend's Delight (novella + short stories + poetry)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Fiend's Delight, a compilation of Bierce's articles; essays, stories, poems and reflection, was published in London in 1873 by John Camden Hotten under the pseudonym «Dod Grile». This was Bierce's first book when he lived and wrote in England from 1872 to 1875, contributing to Fun magazine. Ambrose Bierce (born June 24, 1842; assumed to have died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story «An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge» and compiled a satirical lexicon The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto «Nothing matters», and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him the nickname «Bitter Bierce». Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of war.
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Ambrose Bierce. The Fiend's Delight (novella + short stories + poetry)
The Fiend’s Delight
Table of Contents
Some Fiction
Tall Talk
Current Journalings. Obituary Notices
Musings, Philosophical and Theological. Laughorisms “Items” from the Press of Interior California. Poesy
Preface
Some Fiction
“One More Unfortunate.”
The Strong Young Man of Colusa
The Glad New Year
The Late Dowling, Senior
“Love’s Labour Lost.”
A Comforter
Little Isaac
The Heels of Her
A Tale of Two Feet
The Scolliver Pig
Mr. Hunker’s Mourner
A Bit of Chivalry
The Head of the Family
Deathbed Repentance
The New Church that was not Built
A Tale of the Great Quake
Johnny
The Child’s Provider
Boys who Began Wrong
A Kansas Incident
Mr. Grile’s Girl
His Railway
Mr. Gish Makes a Present
A Cow–County Pleasantry
The Optimist, and What He Died Of
The Root of Education
Retribution
Margaret the Childless
The Discomfited Demon
The Mistake of a Life
L. S
The Baffled Asian
Tall Talk
A Call to Dinner
On Death and Immortality
Music–Muscular and Mechanical
The Good Young Man
The Average Parson
Did We Eat One Another?
Your Friend’s Friend
Le Diable est aux Vaches
Angels and Angles
A Wingless Insect
Pork on the Hoof
The Young Person
A Certain Popular Fallacy
Pastoral Journalism
Mendicity’s Mistake
Picnicking considered as a Mistake
Thanksgiving Day
Flogging
Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press
Charity
The Study of Human Nature
Additional Talk–Done in the Country. I
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Current Journalings
Obituary Notices
Christians
Pagans
Musings, Philosophical and Theological
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Laughorisms
“Items” from the Press of Interior California
Poesy
Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus
Epitaph on George Francis Train
Jerusalem, Old and New
Communing with Nature
Conservatism and Progress
Inter Arma Silent Leges
Quintessence
Resurgam