In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce's stories about Civil War soldiers includeA Horseman in the Sky, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, A Son of the Gods, One of the Missing, Killed at Resaca, The Affair at Coulter's Notch, The Coup de Grâce, Parker Adderson, Philosopher, An Affair of Outposts, The Story of a Conscience, One Kind of Officer, One Officer, One Man, George Thurston, andThe Mocking-Bird.Bierce's stories about the lives of civilians during the Civil War period includeThe Man Out of the Nose, An Adventure at Brownville, The Famous Gilson Bequest, The Applicant, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake, A Holy Terror, The Suitable Surroundings, The Boarded Window, A Lady from Red Horse, andThe Eyes of the Panth

About the Author

Ambrose Bierce (1842-ca. 1914) was an American journalist, short-story writer, and poet. Born in Ohio, he served in the Civil War and then settled in San Francisco. He wrote for Hearst's Examiner, his wit and satire making him the literary dictator of the Pacific coast and strongly influencing many writers. He disappeared into war-torn Mexico in 1913.Claire Bloom gained international fame in 1951 with her screen debut in Charles Chaplin's motion picture Limelight. Among her many memorable films are Richard III, The Haunting, Look Back in Anger, and A Doll's House.Paul Boehmerappeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband and on television in Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, Star Trek, and All My Children. He loves narrating audiobooks, and he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card's Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier's Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine's Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices.

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