This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile.
It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem callous, entertaining or some of the stories even just weird. The author has been known to have a penchant for being macabre as some of his works have displayed.
Ambrose Bierce served in the Civil War so he did have personal experience with having seen just how horrid some lives were. He also had a family: a wife whom he divorced in 1904 and 3 children, 2 sons and a daughter. Difficult times followed for him as the sons died before Ambrose died, with his ex wife dying 1 year after their divorce. Ambrose himself was known to have had lifelong asthma & brain injuries from the war which caused him to faint & become irritable. His daughter did live 65 years, dying in 1940. She spent time searching for her father, whom she did not think was dead. Possibly his family is why some of his writings were not so macabre? Unfortunately that answer is not known.
Leaving to visit his civil war grounds had him traveling into Mexico were there was revolution in 1913. There he joined Pancho Villa’s army as an observer where he disappeared.
Many theories existed as to how his disappearance happened, most of which were unreliable.
It was determined his final fate was unknown & referred to as a mystery.
April Reynolds
Bölümler (57)
1Preface
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2Some Fiction; One More Unfortunate
2:46
3Some Fiction; The Strong Young Man of Colusa
2:22
4Some Fiction;The Glad New Year
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5Some Fiction; The Late Dowling, Senior
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6Some Fiction; “Love’s Labour Lost”
3:57
7Some Fiction; A Comforter
2:08
8Some Fiction; Little Isaac
2:30
9Some Fiction; the Heels of Her
2:26
10Some Fiction; A Tale of Two Feet
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11Some Fiction; The Scolliver Pig
3:30
12Some Fiction; Mr. Hunker's Mourner
2:18
13Some Fiction; A Bit of Chivalry
3:08
14Some Fiction; The Head of the Family
2:00
15Some Fiction; Deathbed Repentance
2:34
16Some Fiction; The New Church that was not Built
3:23
17Some Fiction; A Tale of the Great Quake
2:05
18Some Fiction; Johnny
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19Some Fiction; The Child's Provider
1:52
20Some Fiction; Boys who Began Wrong
1:50
21Some Fiction; A Kansas Incident
1:07
22Some Fiction; Mr. Grile's Girl
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23Some Fiction; His Railway
1:54
24Some Fiction; Mr. Gish Makes a Present
1:59
25Some Fiction; A Cow-County Pleasantry
1:57
26Some Fiction; The Optimist, and What He Died Of
2:50
27Some Fiction; The Root of Education
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28Some Fiction; Retribution
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29Some Fiction; The faithful wife
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30Some Fiction; Margaret the Childless
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31Some Fiction; The Discomfited Demon
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32Some Fiction; The Mistake of a Life
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33Some Fiction; L.S.
4:31
34Some Fiction; The Baffled Asian
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35Tall Talk; A Call to Dinner
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36Tall Talk; On Death and Immortality
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37Tall Talk; Music, muscular and mechanical
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38Tall Talk; The Good Young Man
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39Tall Talk; The Average Parson
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40Tall Talk; Did We Eat One Another?
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41Tall Talk; Your Friend’s Friend
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42Tall Talk; Le Diable est aux Vaches
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43Tall Talk; Angels and Angles
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44Tall Talk; A Wingless Insect
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45Tall Talk; Pork on the Hoof
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46Tall Talk; The Young Person
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47Tall Talk; A Certain Popular Fallacy
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48Tall Talk; Pastoral Journalism
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49Tall Talk; Mendicity’s Mistake
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50Tall Talk; Insects
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51Tall Talk; Picnicking considered as a Mistake
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52Tall Talk; Thanksgiving Day
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53Tall Talk; Flogging
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54Tall Talk; Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press
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55Tall Talk; Charity
0:50
56Tall Talk; The Study of Human Nature
0:52
57Tall Talk; Additional Talk—Done in the Country
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