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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Bierce, Ambrose

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1470101653
ISBN13: 9781470101657
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 19 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The Federal cannoneers fought their hopeless battle in an atmosphere of living iron whose thoughts were lightnings and whose deeds were death. -Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: The Affair at Coulter's Notch. Since the book is a compilation of short stories, there is not an overarching plot. However, there are literary elements, or plot devices, that are shared throughout. Bierce's stories often begin mid-plot, with relevant details withheld until the end, where the dramatic resolution unfolds differently than expected, to a degree where most are considered twist endings. His characters were described by George Sterling as: His heroes, or rather victims, are lonely men, passing to unpredictable dooms, and hearing, from inaccessible crypts of space, the voices of unseen malevolencies. The book is divided into two segments-Soldiers and Civilians. Within these short stories, Bierce's uses roman numerals to demarcate segments. For example, A Horseman in the Sky is eleven pages long, yet has four parts

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