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An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge

Set during the American Civil War, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is the classic short story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge. Flashing between the present and the past--from Peyton's thoughts as he stands on the bridge to his memories as a major Confederate supporter in the South--he creates parallel realities in which truth and fantasy become indistinguishable. A story of war, death, and the power of the mind, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is Ambrose Bierce's most anthologized work and an enduring piece of American literature.

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  • "Spoken Freely presents: Going public...in shorts"@en
  • "Spoken Freely presents"@en
  • "Damned thing"@en
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  • "Set during the American Civil War, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is the classic short story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge. Flashing between the present and the past--from Peyton's thoughts as he stands on the bridge to his memories as a major Confederate supporter in the South--he creates parallel realities in which truth and fantasy become indistinguishable. A story of war, death, and the power of the mind, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is Ambrose Bierce's most anthologized work and an enduring piece of American literature."@en
  • "A planter is condemned to death by Federal troops. As the soldiers prepare for the execution the planter prepares his escape."@en
  • "The out-of-body experience of a saboteur facing summary execution."@en
  • "During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging."@en
  • "A collection of short stories of ghosts and strange things. In the first, during the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge awaiting hanging."
  • "A Confederate spy is spared death when the rope meant to hang him miraculously breaks. Or does it?"@en
  • "Ambrose Bierce's supernatural stories have been read by generations of American and British readers, and it is an unusual anthology of supernatural fiction that does not reprint one of his works. An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge is probably his best-known story of this type."@en
  • "A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners--two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff."@en
  • "One of these stories is about the last minutes in the life of a condemned man of the American Civil War who stands on a bridge awaiting his hanging."@en
  • "One of these stories is about the last minutes in the life of a condemned man of the American Civil War who stands on a bridge awaiting his hanging."

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  • "Short stories, American"@en
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  • "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and the damned thing"
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  • "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [& other stories]"@en
  • "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [& other stories]"
  • "An occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge"@en
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  • "An occurrence at owl creek bridge ; the damned thing"@en
  • "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge collected stories of the supernatural"
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