The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 09 / Tangential Views

by Ambrose Bierce

CONTENTS

• TANGENTIAL VIEWS
• [Some Privations of the Coming Man]
• [Civilization of the Monkey]
• [The Socialist—What He is, and Why]
• [George the Made-over]
• [John Smith’s Ancestors]
• [The Moon in Letters]
• [Columbus]
• [The Religion of the Table]
• [Revision Downward]
• [The Art of Controversy]
• [In the Infancy of “Trusts”]
• [Poverty, Crime and Vice]
• [Decadence of the American Foot]
• [The Clothing of Ghosts]
• [Some Aspects of Education]
• [The Reign of the Ring]
• [Fin de Siècle]
• [Timothy H. Rearden]
• [The Passing of the Horse]
• [Newspapers]
• [A Benign Invention]
• [Actors and Acting]
• [The Value of Truth]
• [Symbols and Fetishes]
• [Did We Eat One Another?]
• [The Bacillus of Crime]
• [The Game of Button]
• [Sleep]
• [Concerning Pictures]
• [Modern Warfare]
• [Christmas and the New Year]
• [On Putting One’s Head into One’s Belly]
• [The American Chair]
• [Another “Cold Spell”]
• [The Love of County]
• [Disintroductions]
• [The Tyranny of Fashion]
• [Breaches of Promise]
• [The Turko-Grecian War]
• [Cats of Cheyenne]
• [Thanksgiving Day]
• [The Hour and the Man]
• [Mortuary Electroplating]
• [The Age Romantic]
• [The War Everlasting]
• [On the Uses of Euthanasia]
• [The Scourge of Laughter]
• [The Late Lamented]
• [Dethronement of the Atom]
• [Dogs for the Klondike]
• [Monsters and Eggs]
• [Music]
• [Malfeasance in Office]
• [For Standing Room]
• [The Jew]
• [Why the Human Nose has a Western Exposure]

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