The monk and the hangman's daughter

by Ambrose Bierce, Adolphe Danziger, Richard Voss

EN·~2 hours·38 chapters

Chapters

38 total

By Adolphe Danziger De Castro and Ambrose Bierce

0:03

1911

3:42

THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER - 1

5:44

10:43

4:30

2:13

1:33

1:58

2:41

4:04

Description

An adaptation from the German of Richard Voss.

Details

Language

Duration

~2 hours (143K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David Widger

Release date

2012-01-17

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Monks -- Fiction

About the authors

Ambrose Bierce

1842–1913

Best known for The Devil’s Dictionary and haunting Civil War stories, this sharp-tongued American writer mixed dark humor with a cool, exact style that still feels modern. His final years added one more mystery to his legend when he vanished after traveling into revolutionary Mexico.

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Adolphe Danziger

1859–1959

A remarkably varied literary life took him from law and journalism to poetry, fiction, and historical writing. He is also remembered for work that later intersected with the world of pulp and weird fiction.

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Richard Voss

1851–1918

A bestselling German novelist and dramatist of the realist tradition, he drew on life in Bavaria and Italy to create stories filled with atmosphere, conflict, and strong emotion. His work was widely read in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially the novel Zwei Menschen.

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