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| Author: | Ambrose Bierce |
| Category: | American Hegemony [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 08 Oct 2021 |
| Pages: | 214 |
| File Size: | 1.75 MB |
| Extension: | |
| Creation Date: | 19 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 783,546 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Author: Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Title: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 09
Tangential Views
Contents: Some privations of the coming man -- Civilization of the monkey -- The socialist: what he is, and why -- George the made-over -- John Smith's ancestors -- The moon in letters -- Columbus -- The religion of the table -- Revision downward -- The art of controversy -- In the infancy of "trusts" -- Poverty, crime and vice -- Decadence of the American foot -- The clothing of ghosts -- Some aspects of education -- The reign of the ring -- Fin de siècle -- Timothy H. Rearden -- The passing of the horse -- Newspapers -- A benign invention -- Actors and acting -- The value of truth -- Symbols and fetishes -- Did we eat one another? -- The bacillus of crime -- The game of button -- Sleep -- Concerning pictures -- Modern warfare -- Christmas and the New Year -- On putting one's head into one's belly -- The American chair -- Another "cold spell" -- The love of county -- Disintroductions -- The tyranny of fashion -- Breaches of promise -- The Turko-Grecian war -- Cats of Cheyenne -- Thanksgiving day -- The hour and the man -- Mortuary electroplating -- The age romantic -- The war everlasting -- On the uses of euthanasia -- The scourge of laughter -- The late lamented -- Dethronement of the atom -- Dogs for the Klondike -- Monsters and eggs -- Music -- Malfeasance in office -- For standing room -- The Jew -- Why the human nose has a western exposure.
Language: English
LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject: American literature
Subject: American essays
Release Date: Oct 8, 2021
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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