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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Ambrose Bierce

『The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter』is a free short novel e-book of Ambrose Bierce available on Project Gutenberg. It has 24,731 words and may take about 2h to read.

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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...

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Ambrose Bierce

(1842 - 1913)

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