{"product_id":"9781598531831","title":"Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, \u0026 Memoirs (LOA #219): In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) \/ Can Such Things Be? \/ The Devil's Dictionary \/ Bits of Autobiography \/ selected stories","description":"A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose  Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of  American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers  the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. \u003ci\u003eIn the  Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians)\u003c\/i\u003e, his collection of  short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces \"An  Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge\" and \"Chickamauga,\" is suffused with a  fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. \u003ci\u003eCan Such  Things Be?\u003c\/i\u003e brings together \"The Death of Halpin Frayser,\" \"The  Damned Thing,\" \"The Moonlit Road,\" and other tales of terror that make  Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe  and Lovecraft. \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, the brilliant lexicon of  subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades,  displays to the full his corrosive wit. In \u003ci\u003eBits of  Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable  \"What I Saw of Shiloh,\" he recreates his experiences in the war and its  aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best  uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides  detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and  mysterious disappearance.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162407452912,"sku":"9781598531831","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598531831_p0.jpg?v=1763825481","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598531831","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}