Ambrose Bierce

One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince.
That he really was buried, the testimony of his senses compelled him to admit. His posture - flat upon his back, with his hands crossed upon his stomach and tied with so This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.