The Dead of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked. And it i This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.
The Dead of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked. And it i This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842-circa 1914) was een Amerikaanse schrijver van korte verhalen. Hij werkte ook als criticus, uitgever en journalist. Zijn bekendste werk is het satirische woordenboek The Devil's Dictionary dat omschreven wordt als een van de honderd meesterwerken van de Amerikaanse literatuur. Eind 1913 verdween Bierce in Mexico.