Ambrose Bierce: “Chickamauga”
“Realism” is an element of some of Abrose Bierce’s short stories (particularly those concerning the Civil War), but the term is of little value when …
Month: January 2012
Peter Rugg, or the Missing Man
From among his few short stories, William Austin’s fame rests primarily with one, “Peter Rugg, or the Missing Man,” which became immensely popular and a …
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Three of the essays in this collection (“History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-soul”) sprang from the 1836 lectures on the philosophy of history Emerson delivered at the …