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The collected works of Ambrose Bierce

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

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VOLUME I ASHES OF THE BEACON THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW FOR THE AHKOOND JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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VOLUME IV SHAPES OF CLAY
  
THE PASSING SHOW
  
ELIXIR VITÆ
  
CONVALESCENT
  
AT THE CLOSE OF THE CANVASS
  
GEOTHEOS
  
POLITICS
  
THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES
  
POLYPHEMUS
  
IN DEFENSE
  
INVOCATION
  
RELIGION
  
TWO SOCIALISTS
  
A MORNING FANCY
  
VISIONS OF SIN
  
GENIUS
  
THE TOWN OF DÆ
  
AN ANARCHIST
  
AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE
  
ARMA VIRUMQUE
  
ON A PROPOSED CREMATORY
  
A DEMAND
  
THE WEATHER-WIGHT
  
T. A. H.
  
MY MONUMENT
  
MAD
  
FOR COERCION OF COLOMBIA
  
A TEAGOING ADMIRAL
  
THE WOOER
  
SILHOUETTES OF ORIENTALS
  
LAND OF THE PILGRIMS' PRIDE
  
A SINGLE TERMER
  
A PLAGUE OF ASSES
  
IN CUBA
  
FOR A CERTAIN CRITIC
  
ARTHUR McEWEN
  
CHARLES AND PETER
  
CONTEMPLATION
  
THE GOLDEN AGE
  
A PROPHET OF PEACE
  
AN UNREFORMABLE REFORMER
  
THE WORD-WAY IN PANAMA
  
THE JACK OF CLUBS
  
A NAVAL METHOD
  
ANOTHER ASPIRANT
  
A LEARNER
  
TO BRIDGET
  
AFTER TENNYSON
  
TO MY BIRD
  
BUSINESS
  
A POSSIBILITY
  
TO A CENSOR
  
“THE WHOLE WORLD KIN”
  
A FUTURE CONVERSATION
  
THE HESITATING VETERAN
  
A YEAR'S “CASUALTIES”
  
TO-DAY
  
AN ALIBI
  
A MEETING
  
J. F. B.
  
THE DYING STATESMAN
  
THE DEATH OF GRANT
  
THE FOUNTAIN REFILLED
  
LAUS LUCIS
  
NANINE
  
TECHNOLOGY
  
A REPLY TO A LETTER
  
TO OSCAR WILDE
  
BORN LEADERS OF MEN
  
THE CRIME OF 1903
  
FOR EXPULSION
  
JUDEX JOCOSUS
  
“GRAFT”
  
THE TALE OF A CRIME
  
TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE
  
AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS
  
FROM VIRGINIA TO PARIS
  
A “MUTE INGLORIOUS MILTON”
  
THE FREE TRADER'S LAMENT
  
SUBTERRANEAN PHANTASIES
  
IN MEMORIAM
  
THE STATESMEN
  
BROTHERS
  
THE CYNIC'S BEQUEST
  
CORRECTED NEWS
  
MR. FINK'S DEBATING DONKEY
  
TO MY LAUNDRESS
  
FAME
  
OMNES VANITAS
  
CONSOLATION
  
FATE
  
PHILOSOPHER BIMM
  
REMINDED
  
SALVINI IN AMERICA
  
ANOTHER WAY
  
ART
  
TO ONE ACROSS THE WAY
  
TO A DEBTOR ABROAD
  
GENESIS
  
LIBERTY
  
THE PASSING OF SHEPHERD
  
TO MAUDE
  
THE BIRTH OF VIRTUE
  
THE SCURRIL PRESS
  
STANLEY
  
ONE OF THE UNFAIR SEX
  
THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN
  
AD ABSURDUM
  
SAITH THE CZAR
  
THE ROYAL JESTER
  
A CAREER IN LETTERS
  
THE FOLLOWING PAIR
  
POLITICAL ECONOMY
  
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN
  
INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT
  
TEMPORA MUTANTUR
  
A FALSE ALARM
  
CONTENTMENT
  
CONSTANCY
  
THE NEW ENOCH ARDEN
  
DISAVOWAL
  
AN AVERAGE
  
INCURABLE
  
THE PUN
  
TO NANINE
  
VICE VERSA
  
A BLACKLIST
  
AUTHORITY
  
THE PSORIAD
  
PEACE
  
THANKSGIVING
  
L'AUDACE
  
THE GOD'S VIEW-POINT
  
THE ÆSTHETES
  
WITH MINE OWN PETARD
  
RESTORED
  
SIRES AND SONS
  
A CHALLENGE
  
TWO SHOWS
  
A POET'S HOPE
  
THE WOMAN AND THE DEVIL
  
TWO ROGUES
  
THE PIED PIPER OF BROOKLYN
  
NOT GUILTY
  
PRESENTIMENT
  
A STUDY IN GRAY
  
FOR MERIT
  
A BIT OF SCIENCE
  
THE TABLES TURNED
  
TO A DEJECTED POET
  
THE HUMORIST
  
MONTEFIORE
  
DISCRETION
  
AN EXILE
  
THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT
  
TO A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST
  
ELECTION DAY
  
THE MILITIAMAN
  
A WELCOME
  
A SERENADE
  
THE WISE AND GOOD
  
THE LOST COLONEL
  
FOR TAT
  
A DILEMMA
  
METEMPSYCHOSIS
  
THE SAINT AND THE MONK
  
IN HIGH LIFE
  
A WHIPPER-IN
  
JUDGMENT
  
A BUBBLE
  
FRANCINE
  
AN EXAMPLE
  
REVENGE
  
THE GENESIS OF EMBARRASSMENT
  
IN CONTUMACIAM
  
FROM THE MINUTES
  
A WOMAN IN POLITICS
  
A BALLAD OF PIKEVILLE
  
AN AUGURY
  
LUSUS POLITICUS
  
BEREAVEMENT
  
A PICKBRAIN
  
THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR
  
DETECTED
  
BIMETALISM
  
TWO METHODS
  
FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATE
  
AN IMPOSTOR
  
FRANCE
  
A GUEST
  
A FALSE PROPHECY
  
A SONG OF THE MANY
  
ONE MORNING
  
THE KING OF BORES
  
HISTORY
  
THE HERMIT
  
THE YEARLY LIE
  
AN APOLOGUE
  
DIAGNOSIS
  
FALLEN
  
The Day of Wrath
  
ONE MOOD'S EXPRESSION
  
SOMETHING IN THE PAPERS
  
THE BINNACLE
  
ONE PRESIDENT
  
THE BRIDE
  
THE MAN BORN BLIND
  
A NIGHTMARE
  
A WET SEASON
  
THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS
  
HÆC FABULA DOCET
  
AGAIN
  
HOMO PODUNKENSIS
  
A SOCIAL CALL
  
MY DAY OF LIFE
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SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS
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THE SCRAP HEAP
  
POESY
  
HOSPITALITY
  
MAGNANIMITY
  
UNDERSTATED
  
AN ATTORNEY-GENERAL
  
FINANCIAL NEWS
  
ASPIRATION
  
DEMOCRACY
  
AN ENEMY TO LAW AND ORDER
  
FORESIGHT
  
A FAIR DIVISION
  
A LACKING FACTOR
  
THE POLITICIAN
  
ELIHU ROOT
  
AN ERROR
  
VANISHED AT COCK-CROW
  
WOMAN
  
A PARTISAN'S PROTEST
  
A BEQUEST TO MUSIC
  
ONEIROMANCY
  
JULY FOURTH
  
A PARADOX
  
REEDIFIED
  
A BULLETIN
  
AN INSCRIPTION
  
AN ERRONEOUS ASSUMPTION
  
A CONSTRUCTOR
  
GOD COMPLIES
  
IN ARTICULO MORTIS
  
THE DISCOVERERS
  
UNEXPOUNDED
  
THE EASTERN QUESTION
  
TWO TYPES
  
TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON
  
COOPERATION
  
HUMILITY
  
STRAINED RELATIONS
  
EXONERATION
  
AFTER PORTSMOUTH
  
A VOICE FROM PEKIN
  
A PIOUS RITE
  
JUSTICE
  
AT THE BEACH
  
AN INFRACTION OF THE RULES
  
CONVERSELY
  
A WARNING
  
PSYCHOGRAPHS
  
FOR WOUNDS
  
A LITERARY METHOD
  
BACK TO NATURE
  
RUDOLPH BLOCK
  
BOYCOTT
  
TO HER
  
CREATION
  
REBUKE
  
PRAYER
  
THE LONG FEAR
  
AN INSPIRED PERFORMANCE
  
SEPULTURE
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VOLUME V BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER
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VOLUME VII THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
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VOLUME VI

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AN INSPIRED PERFORMANCE

The Devil troubled a pool of mud,
And Vierick from out the smother
Arose and to prove his royal blood
Defamed his peasant mother.
Dear Devil, his poems—we'll suffer all those,
But do not again provoke him to prose.
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