![]() It offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk are neatly lampooned. One of Bierce's most famous works is his much-quoted book, The Devil's Dictionary, originally a newspaper serialization which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. In the last moments of his life, the Southern prisoner dreams he has escaped and everything that happens in the story is really only the work of the prisoner's brain just before he dies. A group of soldiers is hanging a Southern farm owner for trying to stop Northern military movements across the Owl Creek Bridge. An Occurrence at Owl takes place during the war of the 1860's between the American states of the North and the states of the South. ![]() The Damned Thing is a story focuses on how the human race takes their views of nature for granted, and how there may be things in the natural world that the human eye cannot see or the human ear cannot hear. ![]()
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