Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Softcover

Bierce, Ambrose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1470101653 ISBN 13: 9781470101657

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

The Federal cannoneers fought their hopeless battle in an atmosphere of living iron whose thoughts were lightnings and whose deeds were death. -Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: The Affair at Coulter's Notch. Since the book is a compilation of short stories, there is not an overarching plot. However, there are literary elements, or plot devices, that are shared throughout. Bierce's stories often begin mid-plot, with relevant details withheld until the end, where the dramatic resolution unfolds differently than expected, to a degree where most are considered twist endings. His characters were described by George Sterling as: His heroes, or rather victims, are lonely men, passing to unpredictable dooms, and hearing, from inaccessible crypts of space, the voices of unseen malevolencies. The book is divided into two segments-Soldiers and Civilians. Within these short stories, Bierce's uses roman numerals to demarcate segments. For example, A Horseman in the Sky is eleven pages long, yet has four parts

About this title

About the Author:

Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, critic and war veteran. Bierce fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army following an 1866 expedition across the Great Plains. Bierce s harrowing experiences during the Civil War, particularly those at the Battle of Shiloh, shaped a writing career that included editorials, novels, short stories and poetry. Among his most famous works are An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Boarded Window, Chickamauga, and What I Saw of Shiloh. While on a tour of Civil-War battlefields in 1913, Bierce is believed to have joined Pancho Villa s army before disappearing in the chaos of the Mexican Revolution.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1470101653
• ISBN 13: 9781470101657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256