Amazon.com description: Product Description: This short story collection by Ambrose Bierce has all of the following stories: 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, The Member and the Soap, Alarm and Pride, - , A Causeway, - , Two in Trouble, The Witch’s Steed, The All Dog, The Farmer’s Friend, Physicians Two, The Overlooked Factor, A Racial Parallel, The Honest Cadi, The Kangaroo and the Zebra, A Matter of Method, The Man of Principle, The Returned Californian, The Compassionate Physician, Two of the Damned, The Austere Governor, Religions of Error, The Penitent Elector, The Tail of the Sphinx, A Prophet of Evil, The Crew of the Life-boat, A Treaty of Peace, The Nightside of Character, The Faithful Cashier, The Circular Clew, The Devoted Widow, The Hardy Patriots, The Humble Peasant, The Various Delegation, The No Case, A Harmless Visitor, The Judge and the Rash Act, The Prerogative of Might, An Inflated Ambition, Rejected Services, The Power of the Scalawag, At Large — One Temper, The Seeker and the Sought, His Fly–Speck Majesty, and Much More.