An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

by Ambrose Bierce

EN·~22 minutes·4 chapters

Chapters

4 total

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - by Ambrose Bierce - THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988

0:05

6:14

2:51

III

12:49

Description

On a quiet Alabama railroad bridge, a civilian farmer stands bound, a rope tied around his neck, awaiting execution by Union soldiers. The meticulous military detail—sent

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~22 minutes (21K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

1995-12-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Short stories United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction Prisoners -- Fiction

About the author

Ambrose Bierce

1842–1913

A master of sharp wit and dark imagination, this American writer turned the violence of the Civil War and a lifelong journalist’s eye into stories that still feel startlingly modern. He is best remembered for haunting tales like An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and for the biting satire of The Devil’s Dictionary.

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