Ambrose Bierce Books & Short Stories on Audio

Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives – entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and taste have changed. Summary by Philippa

''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,'' the premier title in this collection, is one of the most widely anthologized American short stories and is considered Bierce's best work.

This collection includes The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.

Five fine ghost stories in the classic 19th century tradition. Why is the house in a small but peaceful hill station in Victorian India, difficult to let? And what disturbs the sleep in the house in Aungier Street...

Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-like definitions.

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they...

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century.

Ten unabridged stories by the greatest American authors. These treasured stories from the most influential authors...

At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields.

These five chilling nineteenth-century ghost stories from both sides of the Atlantic include some of the best in the genre.