The Fiend's Delight


Lu par April6090

(3.3 stars; 5 reviews)


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 (2 hr 25 min)

Chapitres

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