Black Beetles in Amber

About this eBook

Author

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

Credits

Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

12977

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12977

Release Date

July 21, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER — By Ambrose Bierce — 1892 — CONTENTS
2. 2.IN EXPLANATION — AMBROSE BIERCE.
3. 3.THE KEY NOTE
4. 4.CAIN
5. 5.AN OBITUARIAN
6. 6.A COMMUTED SENTENCE
7. 7.A LIFTED FINGER
8. 8.TWO STATESMEN
9. 9.MATTER FOR GRATITUDE
10. 10.THREE KINDS OF A ROGUE
11. 11.A MAN
12. 12.SAMUEL SHORTRIDGE
13. 13.SURPRISED
14. 14.POSTERITY'S AWARD
15. 15.AN ART CRITIC
16. 16.THE SPIRIT OF A SPONGE
17. 17.ORNITHANTHROPOS
18. 18.TO E.S. SALOMON
19. 19.DENNIS KEARNEY
20. 20.FINIS FTERNITATIS
21. 21.THE VETERAN
22. 22.AN "EXHIBIT"
23. 23.THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF A SOUL
24. 24.AN ACTOR
25. 25.FAMINE'S REALM
26. 26.THE MACKAIAD
27. 27.A SONG IN PRAISE
28. 28.A POET'S FATHER
29. 29.A COWARD
30. 30.TO MY LIARS
31. 31.CODEX HONORIS
32. 32.TO W.H.L.B.
33. 33.EMANCIPATION
34. 34.JOHNDONKEY
35. 35.HELL
36. 36.BY FALSE PRETENSES
37. 37.LUCIFER OF THE TORCH
38. 38.THE "WHIRLIGIG OF TIME"
39. 39.A RAILROAD LACKEY
40. 40.THE LEGATEE
41. 41.A LITERARY HANGMAN
42. 42.AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR
43. 43.A CONTROVERSIALIST
44. 44.MENDAX
45. 45.THE RETROSPECTIVE BIRD
46. 46.THE OAKLAND DOG
47. 47.THE UNFALLEN BRAVE
48. 48.A CELEBRATED CASE
49. 49.COUPLETS
50. 50.A RETORT
51. 51.A VISION OF RESURRECTION
52. 52.MASTER OF THREE ARTS
53. 53.THERSITES
54. 54.A SOCIETY LEADER
55. 55.EXPOSITOR VERITATIS
56. 56.TO "COLONEL" DAN. BURNS
57. 57.GEORGE A. KNIGHT
58. 58.UNARMED
59. 59.A POLITICAL VIOLET
60. 60.THE SUBDUED EDITOR
61. 61.A "SCION OF NOBILITY"
62. 62.THE NIGHT OF ELECTION
63. 63.THE CONVICTS' BALL
64. 64.A PRAYER
65. 65.TO ONE DETESTED
66. 66.THE BOSS'S CHOICE
67. 67.A MERCIFUL GOVERNOR
68. 68.AN INTERPRETATION
69. 69.A SOARING TOAD
70. 70.AN UNDRESS UNIFORM
71. 71.THE PERVERTED VILLAGE
72. 72.MR. SHEETS
73. 73.A JACK-AT-ALL-VIEWS
74. 74.MY LORD POET
75. 75.TO THE FOOL-KILLER
76. 76.ONE AND ONE ARE TWO
77. 77.MONTAGUE LEVERSON
78. 78.THE WOFUL TALE OF MR. PETERS
79. 79.TWIN UNWORTHIES
80. 80.ANOTHER PLAN
81. 81.A POLITICAL APOSTATE
82. 82.TINKER DICK
83. 83.BATS IN SUNSHINE
84. 84.A WORD TO THE UNWISE
85. 85.ON THE PLATFORM
86. 86.A DAMPENED ARDOR
87. 87.ADAIR WELCKER, POET
88. 88.TO A WORD-WARRIOR
89. 89.A CULINARY CANDIDATE
90. 90.THE OLEOMARGARINE MAN
91. 91.GENESIS
92. 92.LLEWELLEN POWELL
93. 93.THE SUNSET GUN.
94. 94.THE "VIDUATE DAME"
95. 95.FOUR OF A KIND
96. 96.RECONCILIATION
97. 97.A VISION OF CLIMATE
98. 98.A "MASS" MEETING
99. 99.FOR PRESIDENT, LELAND STANFORD
100. 100.FOR MAYOR
101. 101.A CHEATING PREACHER
102. 102.A CROCODILE
103. 103.THE AMERICAN PARTY
104. 104.UNCOLONELED
105. 105.THE GATES AJAR
106. 106.TIDINGS OF GOOD
107. 107.ARBORICULTURE
108. 108.A SILURIAN HOLIDAY
109. 109.REJECTED
110. 110.JUDEX JUDICATUS
111. 111.ON THE WEDDING OF AN AKRONAUT
112. 112.A HASTY INFERENCE
113. 113.A VOLUPTUARY
114. 114.AD CATTONUM
115. 115.THE NATIONAL GUARDSMAN
116. 116.THE BARKING WEASEL
117. 117.A REAR ELEVATION
118. 118.IN UPPER SAN FRANCISCO
119. 119.NIMROD
120. 120.CENSOR LITERARUM
121. 121.BORROWED BRAINS
122. 122.THE FYGHTYNGE SEVENTH
123. 123.INDICTED
124. 124.OVER THE BORDER
125. 125.ONE JUDGE
126. 126.TO AN INSOLENT ATTORNEY
127. 127.ACCEPTED
128. 128.A PROMISED FAST TRAIN
129. 129.ONE OF THE SAINTS
130. 130.A MILITARY INCIDENT
131. 131.SUBSTANCE VERSUS SHADOW
132. 132.THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MORALS
133. 133.CALIFORNIA
134. 134.DE YOUNG—A PROPHECY
135. 135.TO EITHER
136. 136.DISAPPOINTMENT
137. 137.THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF THEFT
138. 138.DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
139. 139.THE LAST MAN
140. 140.ARBOR DAY
141. 141.THE PIUTE
142. 142.FAME
143. 143.ONE OF THE REDEEMED
144. 144.A CRITIC
145. 145.A QUESTION OF ELIGIBILITY
146. 146.FLEET STROTHER
147. 147.CALIFORNIAN SUMMER PICTURES
148. 148.SLANDER
149. 149.JAMES L. FLOOD
150. 150.FOUR CANDIDATES FOR SENATOR
151. 151.A GROWLER
152. 152.AD MOODIUM
153. 153.AN EPITAPH
154. 154.A SPADE
155. 155.THE VAN NESSIAD
156. 156.A FISH COMMISSIONER
157. 157.TO A STRAY DOG
158. 158.IN HIS HAND
159. 159.A DEMAGOGUE
160. 160.IGNIS FATUUS
161. 161.FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
162. 162.AN IDLER
163. 163.THE DEAD KING
164. 164.A PATTER SONG
165. 165.THE SHAFTER SHAFTED
166. 166.THE MUMMERY
167. 167.THE TWO CAVEES
168. 168.METEMPSYCHOSIS
169. 169.SLICKENS
170. 170.ASPIRANTS THREE
171. 171.THE BIRTH OF THE RAIL
172. 172.A BAD NIGHT
173. 173.ON STONE
174. 174.A WREATH OF IMMORTELLES

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