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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge' is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. It is one of the best classic tales filled with detail and vision. This story inspires the imagination, then provides one of the best twists ever invented. The story is set in the time of the Civil War. It is famous for its irregular time sequence and twisted end. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is considered an early example of experimentation with stream of consciousness. It is one of Bierce's most anthologized stories.
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Synopsis:
Perhaps best known as a journalist and the author of the sardonic "The Devil's Dictionary", Bierce ranks alongside Poe as one of the fathers of American supernatural fiction. As a young man he served in the Federal army during the American Civil war, participating in some of the most horrific battles, and this closeness to the horrors and excitement of war informed both his famed cynicism and his fiction. As S.T. Joshi says in his new Introduction to these, the complete supernatural stories, 'The element that fuses Bierce's tales...is the focus on what might be called the psychology and physiology of fear...Bierce is relentless in dissecting the precise succession of emotions that transforms a sane, normal man...into a gibbering lunatic'.And Bierce's precise, pared down writing style provides a perfect foil to the Gothic content of his tales. In his journalism, Bierce habitually ridiculed belief in ghosts, apparitions, and revenants; but he nonetheless continued to find death a powerful and troubling concept. It is significant that he does not provide an entry for 'Death' in "The Devil's Dictionary": it was, perhaps, the one phenomenon he could not poke fun at.His own death remains an enduring mystery: the septuagenarian Bierce went missing during a trip to Revolutionary Mexico late in 1913, and no trace of him has ever been found.
About the Author:
Journalist, short story writer, and satirist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was equally adept in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to poetry to political commentary. Bierce's fiction is particularly distinguished by its realistic depictions of the author's Civil War experiences.
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- PublisherThe Tartarus Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1905784104
- ISBN 13 9781905784103
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
- EditorJoshi S. T.
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