An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories represents

represents

full of intellectual treats and tricks

Composed in a golden age of Celtic storytelling in the thirteenth century or earlier

and the quadrature of the parabola

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories representsAmbrose Bierce wrote stories so dramatically different from those of his contemporaries that they hardly seem like they were written in the nineteenth century. These original and innovative tales, most of which appeared in the 1880s and 1890s, constitute 23 examples of his best and most characteristic short fiction: anti war satires that underscore the barbarism and futility of bloodshed; horror stories with a keenly ironic edge; and sardonic "tall