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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (MP3) - 2005 [Audio Book] |
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2005 |
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330 Minutes |
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"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"
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is Ambrose Bierce's best-known story and a good example of how his stories jar the listener out of a comfortable complacency with improbable twists of plot, tone, or perspective.
It was for that 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. He found the short story a superior form of fiction because it was limited only by the truths of the psyche rather than by a hidebound, earthbound, photographic attention to social events."
Ambrose Bierce himself said, "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."
This collection of Ambrose Bierce's short stories includes:
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"Beyond the Wall"
"What I Saw of Shiloh"
"The Eyes of the Panther"
"Chickamauga"
"The Death of Halpin Frayser"
"A Son of the Gods: A Study in the Present Tense"
"A Resumed Identity"
"One of the Missing"
"The Damned Thing"
"Killed at Resaca"
"Moxon's Master"
"An Affair of Outposts"
"A Horseman in the Sky" |
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| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories (MP3) Audio Book Details |
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Unabridged |
| Year : |
2005 |
| Playtime : |
330 Minutes |
| Lang : |
English |
| Release : |
Blackstone AudioBooks |
| Genre : |
Fiction |
| Rating : |
NR - Not Rated |
| Category : |
AudioBooks |
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