TY - BOOK AU - Bierce,Ambrose TI - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge AV - PS PY - 1995/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories KW - United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction KW - Prisoners -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge; Release date is 1995-12-01; Original publication data not identified N2 - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce is a short story published in 1890. It follows Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer, as he faces execution by hanging from a railroad bridge during the American Civil War. When the rope breaks and he plunges into the creek below, Farquhar begins a desperate escape toward home. The story abandons linear narration to explore the protagonist's mind, creating an early example of stream-of-consciousness technique that leads to a shocking revelation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375 ER -