The Fiend's Delight


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This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile.
It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem callous, entertaining or some of the stories even just weird. The author has been known to have a penchant for being macabre as some of his works have displayed.
Ambrose Bierce served in the Civil War so he did have personal experience with having seen just how horrid some lives were. He also had a family: a wife whom he divorced in 1904 and 3 children, 2 sons and a daughter. Difficult times followed for him as the sons died before Ambrose died, with his ex wife dying 1 year after their divorce. Ambrose himself was known to have had lifelong asthma & brain injuries from the war which caused him to faint & become irritable. His daughter did live 65 years, dying in 1940. She spent time searching for her father, whom she did not think was dead. Possibly his family is why some of his writings were not so macabre? Unfortunately that answer is not known.
Leaving to visit his civil war grounds had him traveling into Mexico were there was revolution in 1913. There he joined Pancho Villa’s army as an observer where he disappeared.
Many theories existed as to how his disappearance happened, most of which were unreliable.
It was determined his final fate was unknown & referred to as a mystery.
April Reynolds (2 hr 25 min)

Capítulos

Preface 1:46 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; One More Unfortunate 2:46 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Strong Young Man of Colusa 2:22 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction;The Glad New Year 2:00 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Late Dowling, Senior 5:24 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; “Love’s Labour Lost” 3:57 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; A Comforter 2:08 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Little Isaac 2:30 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; the Heels of Her 2:26 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; A Tale of Two Feet 1:50 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Scolliver Pig 3:30 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Mr. Hunker's Mourner 2:18 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; A Bit of Chivalry 3:08 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Head of the Family 2:00 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Deathbed Repentance 2:34 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The New Church that was not Built 3:23 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; A Tale of the Great Quake 2:05 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Johnny 1:46 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Child's Provider 1:52 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Boys who Began Wrong 1:50 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; A Kansas Incident 1:07 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Mr. Grile's Girl 2:29 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; His Railway 1:54 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Mr. Gish Makes a Present 1:59 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; A Cow-County Pleasantry 1:57 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Optimist, and What He Died Of 2:50 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Root of Education 2:09 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Retribution 1:21 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The faithful wife 1:43 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; Margaret the Childless 2:34 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Discomfited Demon 3:58 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Mistake of a Life 1:37 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; L.S. 4:31 Leído por April6090
Some Fiction; The Baffled Asian 2:27 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; A Call to Dinner 5:08 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; On Death and Immortality 3:53 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Music, muscular and mechanical 2:35 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; The Good Young Man 2:10 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; The Average Parson 2:56 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Did We Eat One Another? 3:01 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Your Friend’s Friend 2:01 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Le Diable est aux Vaches 3:51 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Angels and Angles 2:06 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; A Wingless Insect 4:06 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Pork on the Hoof 3:04 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; The Young Person 2:16 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; A Certain Popular Fallacy 1:55 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Pastoral Journalism 3:21 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Mendicity’s Mistake 2:00 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Insects 1:42 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Picnicking considered as a Mistake 1:53 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Thanksgiving Day 4:31 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Flogging 1:58 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press 1:19 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Charity 0:50 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; The Study of Human Nature 0:52 Leído por April6090
Tall Talk; Additional Talk—Done in the Country 3:53 Leído por April6090