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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Ambrose Bierce · 1909 · 146 pages
Ambrose Bierce was an American writer who is best known for his realism. Often compared to Poe for the dark, realistic nature of his short stories, Bierce drew upon his Civil War experience as a soldier to write on a wide variety of subjects, and stories like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge are still widely read.
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Errol Morris
“The greatest American writer, with the possible exception of Poe and Nathanael West. Bierce had a simple idea: Life is a grotesque dream, interrupted by death. Irony, fatality, and an implacable sense of the futility of it all. What’s there not to like? (Chickamauga may be only a couple of pages in length, but it is the greatest American short-story.)”↗