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Fiend's Delight

Name: Fiend's Delight
Author: Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Read by April6090 · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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