Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America's most renowned satirists, a journalist for forty years, and the author of the Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
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Set during the time of the American Civil War, this story is about a man named Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer who attempted to demolish the Owl Creek Bridge, but was caught and condemned to die by hanging. But all is not what it seems to be in... SEE MORE