Shapes of Clay. Ambrose Bierce

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СКАЧАТЬ AN IMPOSTER.

       UNEXPOUNDED.

       FRANCE.

       THE EASTERN QUESTION.

       A GUEST.

       A FALSE PROPHECY.

       TWO TYPES.

       SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS.

       STEPHEN DORSEY.

       STEPHEN J. FIELD.

       GENERAL B.F. BUTLER.

       A HYMN OF THE MANY.

       ONE MORNING.

       AN ERROR.

       AT THE "NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT."

       THE KING OF BORES.

       HISTORY.

       THE HERMIT.

       TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON.

       THE YEARLY LIE.

       COOPERATION.

       AN APOLOGUE.

       DIAGNOSIS.

       FALLEN.

       DIES IRAE.

       DIES IRAE.

       THE DAY OF WRATH.

       ONE MOOD'S EXPRESSION.

       SOMETHING IN THE PAPERS.

       IN THE BINNACLE.

       HUMILITY.

       ONE PRESIDENT.

       THE BRIDE.

       STRAINED RELATIONS.

       THE MAN BORN BLIND.

       A NIGHTMARE.

       A WET SEASON.

       THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS.

       HAEC FABULA DOCET.

       EXONERATION.

       AZRAEL.

       AGAIN.

       HOMO PODUNKENSIS.

       A SOCIAL CALL.

      DEDICATION.

       Table of Contents

      WITH PRIDE IN THEIR WORK, FAITH IN THEIR FUTURE AND AFFECTION FOR THEMSELVES, AN OLD WRITER DEDICATES THIS BOOK TO HIS YOUNG FRIENDS AND PUPILS, GEORGE STERLING AND HERMAN SCHEFFAUER. A.B.

PREFACE.

       Table of Contents

      Some small part of this book being personally censorious, and in that part the names of real persons being used without their assent, it seems fit that a few words be said of the matter in sober prose. What it seems well to say I have already said with sufficient clarity in the preface of another book, somewhat allied to this by that feature of its character. I quote from "Black Beetles in Amber:"

      "Many of the verses in this book are republished, with considerable alterations, from various newspapers. Of my motives in writing and in now republishing I do not care to make either defence or explanation, except СКАЧАТЬ