Start reading Can Such Things Be? on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

 
 
 
Read books on your computer or other mobile devices with our FREE Kindle Reading Apps.
Can Such Things Be?
 
 

Can Such Things Be? [Kindle Edition]

Ambrose Bierce
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Print List Price: £6.19
Kindle Price: £0.00 includes free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
You Save: £6.19 (100%)

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition £0.00  
Hardcover £14.75  
Paperback £6.19  
Audio, CD, Audiobook --  
Unknown Binding --  
Audio Download, Unabridged £7.72 or Free with Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought


Product Description

Product Description

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Synopsis

An overview of Bierce's life and personality prefaces twenty-four tales of horror and the supernatural, including The Death of Halpin Frayser, Moxon's Master, and The Damned Thing.

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 240 KB
  • Print Length: 113 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1846377315
  • Publisher: Public Domain Books (1 Aug 2003)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B000JQUKCS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,282 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  •  Would you like to give feedback on images?


More About the Authors

Discover books, learn about writers, and more.

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?


Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Customer Reviews

4 star
0
3 star
0
2 star
0
1 star
0
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Terrific Selection 9 Sep 2010
By Chinatown Blue TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was disappointed on downloading Present at a Hanging to my Kindle, to find The Moonlit Road missing. This collection rectifies that. The contents is not interactive, but the sheer quantity of wonderful stories makes up for that, and I have found no textual errors or issues. The collection comprises: The Death of Halpin Fraser, The Secret of Macarger's Gulch, One Summer Night, The Moonlit Road, A Diagnosis Of Death, Moxon's Master, A Tough Tussle, One Of Twins, The Haunted Valley, A Jug Of Sirop, Stanley Fleming's Hallucination, A Resumed Identity, Hazen's Brigade, A Baby Tramp, The Night-Doings At 'Deadman's', A Story That Is Untrue, Beyond the Wall, A Psychological Shipwreck, The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, John Mortenson's Funeral, The Realm of the Unreal, John Bartine's Watch, A Story By a Physician, The Damned Thing, Haita the Shepherd, An Inhabitant of Carcosa, and The Stranger. Classics of the macabre and of American literature.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:  1 review
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Excellent...if abbreviated 26 Feb 2011
By James David Reyome - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I know more about Bierce himself than of his stories, except for the classic, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", which is quite well known, and rightfully so. But Ambrose Bierce is one of those writers whose persona was at least the equivalent of his tales. I'll leave that to you to discover as I did, however; the joy is in the hunt!

This rendering of "Can Such Things Be?" is excellent, a collection of Bierce's creepier tales. Some are better than others, and the whole was a bit spoiled by the absence of his "Missing Persons" stories, most pointedly the infamous "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field". The complete edition can be found as an ePub on Google Books and can be converted to Kindle format rather easily if you're so inclined, but it lacks the attention to formatting and corrections this one has--all in all, a wonderfully done piece. As such, even with the omissions it's still a VERY worthwhile read with some wonderfully gruesome twists that will stay with you a long time. If you've never read Bierce, this is a terrific introduction and a wonderful free download; it was, in fact, the first for my new Kindle. I suspect you will enjoy it at least as much as I did!
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Popular Highlights

 (What's this?)
&quote;
Life, he says, is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences. &quote;
Highlighted by 5 Kindle users
&quote;
I did not know what to think of all this, and like every one who does not know what to think I thought a great deal, and to little purpose.  &quote;
Highlighted by 4 Kindle users
&quote;
One who had many times seen a rabbit pursued by a dog, and had never seen rabbits and dogs otherwise, would think the rabbit the cause of the dog. &quote;
Highlighted by 4 Kindle users

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   


Customers Who Highlighted This Item Also Highlighted


Look for similar items by category


Look for similar items by subject






i.e., each title must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. GB Privacy Statement Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. GB Delivery Information Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. GB Returns & Exchanges