The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 10 / The Opinionator

by Ambrose Bierce

CONTENTS

• THE OPINIONATOR
• [The Novel]
• [On Literary Criticism]
• [Stage Illusion]
• [The Matter of Manner]
• [On Reading New Books]
• [Alphabêtes and Border Ruffians]
• [To Train a Writer]
• [As to Cartooning]
• [The S. P. W.]
• [Portraits of Elderly Authors]
• [Wit and Humor]
• [Word Changes and Slang]
• [The Ravages of Shakspearitis]
• [England’s Laureate]
• [Hall Caine on Hall Caining]
• [Visions of the Night]
• THE REVIEWER
• [Edwin Markham’s Poems]
• “[The Kreutzer Sonata]”
• [Emma Frances Dawson]
• [Marie Bashkirtseff]
• [A Poet and His Poem]
• THE CONTROVERSIALIST
• [An Insurrection of the Peasantry]
• [Montagues and Capulets]
• [A Dead Lion]
• [The Short Story]
• [Who are Great?]
• [Poetry and Verse]
• [Thought and Feeling]
• THE TIMOROUS REPORTER
• [The Passing of Satire]
• [Some Disadvantages of Genius]
• [Our Sacrosanct Orthography]
• [The Author as an Opportunity]
• [On Posthumous Renown]
• [The Crime of Inattention]
• [Fetishism]
• [Our Audible Sisters]
• [The New Penology]
• [The Nature of War]
• [How to Grow Great]
• [A War in the Orient]
• [A Just Decision]
• [The Lion’s Den]
• THE MARCH HARE
• [A Flourishing Industry]
• [The Rural Press]
• [To “Elevate the Stage”]
• [Pectolite]
• [La Boulangère]
• [Advice to Old Men]
• [A Dubious Vindication]
• [The Jamaican Mongoose]

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