Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was an American newspaperman, satirist, and short story writer. He disappeared in Mexico in 1914 and his final fate is unknown.

Synopsis

Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs county, Ohio. He worked as a printer's apprentice and enlisted to fight in the Civil War. After the war he worked as an editor, journalist, and short story writer; capturing his war experiences in vivid detail. In 1913 he went to Mexico, then in the midst of a revolution led by Pancho Villa. He disappeared sometime in 1914

In 1877 he became associate editor of the San Francisco Argonaut but left it in 1879–80 for an unsuccessful try at placer mining in Rockerville in the Dakota Territory. Thereafter he was editor of the San Francisco Illustrated Wasp for five years. In 1887 he joined the staff of William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner, for which he wrote the “Prattler” column. In 1896 Bierce moved to Washington, D.C., where he continued newspaper and magazine writing. In 1913, tired of American life, he went to Mexico, then in the middle of a revolution led by Pancho Villa. His end is a mystery, but a reasonable conjecture is that he was killed in the siege of Ojinaga in January 1914.

This collection includes the following:

I.    Introduction
II.    The Fiend’s Delight
III.    The Land Beyond the Blow
IV.    Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
V.    Can Such Things Be?
VI.    Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
VII.    Fantastic Fables
VIII.    Present at a Hanging
IX.    Negligible Tales
X.    The Parenticide Club
XI.    The Fourth Estate
XII.    The Ocean Wave
XIII.    “On with the Dance!”
XIV.    Epigrams
XV.    Ashes of the Beacon
XVI.    Working for an Empress
XVII.    Across the Plains
XVIII.    The Mirage
XIX.    A Sole Survivor
XX.    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
XXI.    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 2
XXII.    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 3
XXIII.    The Devil’s Dictionary
XXIV.    The collected works of Ambrose Bierce