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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Analysis
“An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” is an 1890 short story by Ambrose Bierce, one of Bierce’s most famous works and an American classic.
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The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce Analysis
Hard to remember now, but ‘damned’ used to be a full on swear word. A teacher at high school once pounced on me for using it (though by the 1990s I think she was being ridiculous). ‘Damned’ was certainly shocking 100 years earlier than that, in 1893, when Ambrose Bierce published his horror short story […]