Fantastic Fables. Амброз Бирс

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       Ambrose Bierce

      Fantastic Fables

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664651655

      Table of Contents

       Aesopus Emendatus

       Old Saws with New Teeth

       The Moral Principle and the Material Interest . . .

       The Crimson Candle

       The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine

       The Ingenious Patriot

       Two Kings

       An Officer and a Thug

       The Conscientious Official

       How Leisure Came

       The Moral Sentiment

       The Politicians

       The Thoughtful Warden

       The Treasury and the Arms

       The Christian Serpent

       The Broom of the Temple

       The Critics

       The Foolish Woman

       Father and Son

       The Discontented Malefactor

       A Call to Quit

       The Man and the Lightning

       The Lassoed Bear

       The Ineffective Rooter

       A Protagonist of Silver

       The Holy Deacon

       A Hasty Settlement

       The Wooden Guns

       The Reform School Board

       The Poet’s Doom

       The Noser and the Note

       The Cat and the King

       The Literary Astronomer

       The Lion and the Rattlesnake

       The Man with No Enemies

       The Alderman and the Raccoon

       The Flying-Machine

       The Angel’s Tear

       The City of Political Distinction

       The Party Over There

       The Poetess of Reform

       The Unchanged Diplomatist

       An Invitation

       The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky

       The Opossum of the Future

       The Life-Savers

       The Australian Grasshopper

       The Pavior

       The Tried Assassin

       The Bumbo of Jiam

       The Two Poets

       The Thistles upon the Grave

       The Shadow of the Leader

       The Sagacious Rat