Many of these stories are realistic depictions of the author's experiences in the Civil War.
Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Bierce's major fiction was collected in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and Can Such Things Be (1893). Can Such Things Be Booktrack Edition By: Ambrose Bierce Narrated by: Roger Melin Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins 3.4 (5 ratings) Try for 0.00 1 title per month from Audible’s entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light. Bierce relocated to Washington, DC in 1896, where he continued to publish poems, essays, epigrams, and short stories in newspapers and magazines.
Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time. IN 35 VOLUMES Parts Edition Contents The Novellas 1, The Dance of Death 2, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter 3, The Land Beyond the Blow. Ambrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car he was a renter who never owned his own home. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. His arms hung helpless at his sides of his eyes only he retained control, and these he dared not remove from the lusterless orbs of the apparition, which he knew was not a soul without a body, but that most dreadful of all existences infesting that haunted wood-a body without a soul! In its blank stare was neither love, nor pity, nor intelligence-nothing to which to address an appeal for mercy.Download cover art Download CD case insert Can Such Things Be?Ģ4 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. He tried to turn and run from before it, but his legs were as lead he was unable to lift his feet from the ground. The apparition confronting the dreamer in the haunted wood-the thing so like, yet so unlike his mother-was horrible! It stirred no love nor longing in his heart it came unattended with pleasant memories of a golden past-inspired no sentiment of any kind all the finer emotions were swallowed up in fear. Can Such Things Be Once William Randolph Hearst Bierces employer, who was bragging about his own endless collections of statuary, art, books, tapestries. Helena, awaiting news and remittances from home, that he had gone gunning and dreaming.
0 kommentar(er)
