- Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
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- Author
- Ambrose Bierce
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 31
- Publisher
- Prestwick House, Incorporated, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 74
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781716663819
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.
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