AUDIOBOOK
About
In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. These include "A Horseman in the Sky," "Chickamauga," "The Applicant," "A Holy Terror," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"-perhaps his most famous story of all-and twenty-one other disturbing tales. Their messages about the horrors of war live on vividly to this day.
Related Subjects
Reviews
"Ambrose Bierce is arguably the finest not-quite-first-rate writer in nineteenth-century American literature."
New York Review of Books, praise for the author
"These tales are so original as to defy comparison…weird and curious…There's nothing like it in fiction."
New-York Tribune