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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories

Portland, Oregon homicide detective Catherine Hobbes finds herself in a deadly contest with an unpredictable adversary capable of changing her appearance and identity at will. Catherine must use everything she knows, as a homicide detective and as a woman, to stop a murderer who kills on impulse and with ease, and who becomes more efficient and elusive with each crime.

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  • "Portland, Oregon homicide detective Catherine Hobbes finds herself in a deadly contest with an unpredictable adversary capable of changing her appearance and identity at will. Catherine must use everything she knows, as a homicide detective and as a woman, to stop a murderer who kills on impulse and with ease, and who becomes more efficient and elusive with each crime."@en
  • "A collection of stories by a notable American author. 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
  • ""Nothing is so improbable as what is true. It is the unexpected that occurs; but that is not saying enough; it is also the unlikely-one might almost say the impossible." -Ambrose Bierce This collection of fourteen of Ambrose Bierce's short stories begins with "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Bierce's best-known story and a good example of how his writing jars the listener out of a comfortable complacency with its improbable twists of plot, tone, or perspective. It was for this reason that Bierce wrote short stories rather than novels. According to literary critic Cathy N. Davidson, "Bierce derided the novel of his time precisely because it groaned under the burden of a predictable, ponderous devotion to probability." This collection includes: 1. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 2. "Beyond the Wall" 3. "What I Saw of Shiloh" 4. "The Eyes of the Panther" 5. "Chickamauga" 6. "The Death of Halpin Frayser" 7. "A Son of the Gods: A Study in the Present Tense" 8. "A Resumed Identity" 9. "One of the Missing" 10. "The Damned Thing" 11. "Killed at Resaca" 12. "Moxon's Master" 13. "An Affair of Outposts" 14. "A Horseman in the Sky""@en
  • "Twenty-three stories by Ambrose Bierce, consisting of nine Civil War stories, ten horror stories, and four tall tales."@en
  • "This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time."@en
  • "This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time."
  • "Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. This volume of selected stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time.''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. First published in 1891 in Bierce's short story collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, the story centers on Peyton Farquhar, a southern planter who is about to be hanged by the Union Army for attempting to destroy the railroad bridge at Owl Creek. As Farquhar stands on the bridge with a noose around his neck, Bierce leads the reader to believe that the rope breaks and that Farquhar falls into the water below, only to escape to his farm, where he is reunited with his wife. ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been lauded as an example of technical brilliance and innovative narration as well as for its examination of such themes as the nature of time and the complexities of human cognition."@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. From the opening to An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."@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. From the opening to An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
  • "Ambrose Bierce's original and innovative stories differed dramatically from those of his nineteenth-century contemporaries. The tales included in this collection are among his best and most characteristic short fiction."

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