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Fiend's Delight

This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile. It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem callous, entertaining or some of the stories even just weird. The author has been known to have a penchant for being macabre as some of his works have displayed. Ambrose Bierce served in the Civil War so he did have personal experience with having seen just how horrid some lives were. He also had a family: a wife whom he divorced in 1904 and 3 children, 2 sons and a daughter. Difficult times followed for him as the sons died before Ambrose died, with his ex wife dying 1 year after their divorce. Ambrose himself was known to have had lifelong asthma & brain injuries from the war which caused him to faint & become irritable. His daughter did live 65 years, dying in 1940. She spent time searching for her father, whom she did not think was dead. Possibly his family is why some of his writings were not so macabre? Unfortunately that answer is not known. Leaving to visit his civil war grounds had him traveling into Mexico were there was revolution in 1913. There he joined Pancho Villa’s army as an observer where he disappeared. Many theories existed as to how his disappearance happened, most of which were unreliable. It was determined his final fate was unknown & referred to as a mystery. April Reynolds

Genres: Single Author Collections , Published before 1800 , Satire

Running Time: 02 hours 25 minutes 32 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Preface April6090	1:46
2	Some Fiction; One More Unfortunate April6090	2:46
3	Some Fiction; The Strong Young Man of Colusa April6090	2:22
4	Some Fiction;The Glad New Year April6090	2:00
5	Some Fiction; The Late Dowling, Senior April6090	5:24
6	Some Fiction; “Love’s Labour Lost” April6090	3:57
7	Some Fiction; A Comforter April6090	2:08
8	Some Fiction; Little Isaac April6090	2:30
9	Some Fiction; the Heels of Her April6090	2:26
10	Some Fiction; A Tale of Two Feet April6090	1:50
11	Some Fiction; The Scolliver Pig April6090	3:30
12	Some Fiction; Mr. Hunker's Mourner April6090	2:18
13	Some Fiction; A Bit of Chivalry April6090	3:08
14	Some Fiction; The Head of the Family April6090	2:00
15	Some Fiction; Deathbed Repentance April6090	2:34
16	Some Fiction; The New Church that was not Built April6090	3:23
17	Some Fiction; A Tale of the Great Quake April6090	2:05
18	Some Fiction; Johnny April6090	1:46
19	Some Fiction; The Child's Provider April6090	1:52
20	Some Fiction; Boys who Began Wrong April6090	1:50
21	Some Fiction; A Kansas Incident April6090	1:07
22	Some Fiction; Mr. Grile's Girl April6090	2:29
23	Some Fiction; His Railway April6090	1:54
24	Some Fiction; Mr. Gish Makes a Present April6090	1:59
25	Some Fiction; A Cow-County Pleasantry April6090	1:57
26	Some Fiction; The Optimist, and What He Died Of April6090	2:50
27	Some Fiction; The Root of Education April6090	2:09
28	Some Fiction; Retribution April6090	1:21
29	Some Fiction; The faithful wife April6090	1:43
30	Some Fiction; Margaret the Childless April6090	2:34
31	Some Fiction; The Discomfited Demon April6090	3:58
32	Some Fiction; The Mistake of a Life April6090	1:37
33	Some Fiction; L.S. April6090	4:31
34	Some Fiction; The Baffled Asian April6090	2:27
35	Tall Talk; A Call to Dinner April6090	5:08
36	Tall Talk; On Death and Immortality April6090	3:53
37	Tall Talk; Music, muscular and mechanical April6090	2:35
38	Tall Talk; The Good Young Man April6090	2:10
39	Tall Talk; The Average Parson April6090	2:56
40	Tall Talk; Did We Eat One Another? April6090	3:01
41	Tall Talk; Your Friend’s Friend April6090	2:01
42	Tall Talk; Le Diable est aux Vaches April6090	3:51
43	Tall Talk; Angels and Angles April6090	2:06
44	Tall Talk; A Wingless Insect April6090	4:06
45	Tall Talk; Pork on the Hoof April6090	3:04
46	Tall Talk; The Young Person April6090	2:16
47	Tall Talk; A Certain Popular Fallacy April6090	1:55
48	Tall Talk; Pastoral Journalism April6090	3:21
49	Tall Talk; Mendicity’s Mistake April6090	2:00
50	Tall Talk; Insects April6090	1:42
51	Tall Talk; Picnicking considered as a Mistake April6090	1:53
52	Tall Talk; Thanksgiving Day April6090	4:31
53	Tall Talk; Flogging April6090	1:58
54	Tall Talk; Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press April6090	1:19
55	Tall Talk; Charity April6090	0:50
56	Tall Talk; The Study of Human Nature April6090	0:52
57	Tall Talk; Additional Talk—Done in the Country April6090	3:53