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Black Beetles in Amber - cover

Black Beetles in Amber

Ambrose Bierce

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce is a collection of angry political poems fixating on figures from nineteenth-century American society. This satire provides scalding reviews of prominent political heads of government at the time. Excerpt: " I dreamed I was dreaming one morn as I lay In a garden with flowers teeming. On an island I lay in a mystical bay, In the dream that I dreamed, I was dreaming. The ghost of a scent—had it followed me there From the place where I truly was resting?"
Available since: 11/26/2019.
Print length: 224 pages.

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