Fantastic Fables
by Ambrose Bierce
More than 200 fantastical tales from the bitter pen of Ambrose Bierce fill this little volume, brimming with the rich feast of her misantropy. Beers did not miss anything - greedy politicians, doctors of thieves, so devout holy men, aldermen, poets, naturalists, poodles, lions, kangaroos, judges, diplomats, legislators - all under scrutiny in a delicious mixture of ridicule and satire, which leaves no institution or pompos of modern life intact. Beers, called the American Swift, is one of the rare masters of fairy tale: like Aesop and La Fontaine, he often personifies objects, animals, and even abstract concepts to reinforce his satire.
