An Arrest by Ambrose Bierce - online literature.
A Baby Tramp. If you had seen little Jo standing at the street corner in the rain, you would hardly have admired him. It was apparently an ordinary autumn rainstorm, but the water which fell upon Jo (who was hardly old enough to be either just or unjust, and so perhaps did not come under the law of impartial distribution) appeared to have some property peculiar to itself: one would have said.
An Arrest. Having murdered his brother-in-law, Orrin Brower of Kentucky was a fugitive from justice. From the county jail where he had been confined to await his trial he had escaped by knocking down his jailer with an iron bar, robbing him of his keys and, opening the outer door, walking out into the night.
Charles Ashmore's Trail. The family of Christian Ashmore consisted of his wife, his mother, two grown daughters, and a son of sixteen years. They lived in Troy, New York, were well-to-do, respectable persons, and had many friends, some of whom, reading these lines, will doubtless learn for the first time the extraordinary fate of the young man.
WORKS BY AMBROSE BIERCE: During his career as a journalist, poet, and author of fiction and nonfiction, Ambrose Bierce published more than four million words. The titles assembled here include his most popular and influential works.
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work.
One of Bierce's most famous works is his much-quoted book, The Devil's Dictionary, originally a newspaper serialization which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. It offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk are neatly lampooned.
The ancient Americans were a composite (pg 19) people; their blood was a blend of all the strains known in their time. Their government, while they had one, being merely a loose and mutable expression of the desires and caprices of the majority—that is to say, of the ignorant, restless and reckless—gave the freest rein and play to all the primal instincts and elemental passions of the race.
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cynic's Word Book, by Ambrose Bierce This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce This story tells about the awful events that have been happening in the town of Blackburg, including the presence of the ghost of Hetty Brownon.
Bierce, Ambrose A Baby Tramp Bierce, Ambrose A Diagnosis of Death Bierce, Ambrose A Jug of Syrup Bierce, Ambrose A Psychological Shipwreck Bierce, Ambrose A Resumed Identity Bierce, Ambrose A Tough Tussle Bierce, Ambrose An Heiress from Redhorse Bierce, Ambrose An Inhabitant of Carcosa Bierce, Ambrose An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died.
