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AUTHOR'S PREFACE _The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.

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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE VOLUME II IN THE MIDST OF LIFE TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS Originally Published 1909 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Denied existence by the chief ...

1909 AIMS AND THE PLAN The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point ...

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press _1899_ Contents: The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermin...

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE VOLUME 1 1909 CONTENTS ASHES OF THE BEACON THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW THITHER SONS OF THE FAIR STAR AN INTERVIEW WITH GNARMAG-ZOTE THE TAMT...

file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Note: The two introductory sections, "The Introduction," and "A Memo...

The 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 j...

[Illustration: Title Page] * * * * * THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCE VOLUME VIII ...

A ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power.

especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and many-faceted genius.

1892 THE ORDER IN WHICH THE BEETLES ARE SHOWN IN EXPLANATION THE KEY NOTE CAIN AN OBITUARIAN A COMMUTED SENTENCE A LIFTED FINGER TWO STATESMEN MATTER FOR GRATITUDE THREE KINDS...

CIVILIZATION I The question "Does civilization civilize?"

CONTENTS My Favorite Murder Oil of Dog An Imperfect Conflagration The Hypnotist MY FAVORITE MURDER Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put...

1 On the first day of May in the year of our Blessed Lord 1680, the Franciscan monks Ægidius, Romanus and Ambrosius were sent by their Superior from the Christian city of Passau to the Monastery o...

Edited by S. O. HOWES Copyright 1909 A NOTE BY THE AUTHOR IT WAS expected that this book would be included in my "Collected Works" now in course of publication, but unforeseen delay in the da...

By Dod Grile "Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done."

Some small part of this book being personally censorious, and in that part the names of real persons being used without their assent, it seems fit that a few words be said of the matter in sober pr...