'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce — VOA Learning English
Topics: класика
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Our story today is called, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. " It was written by Ambrose Bierce.
The occurrence, or event, in our story takes place during the Civil War of the eighteen sixties between the American states of the north and the states of the south. A group of soldiers is hanging a southern farm owner for trying to stop northern military movements across the Owl Creek Bridge.
In the last moments of his life, the southern prisoner dreams he has escaped. And everything that happens in the story is really the images in the prisoner's mind just before he dies.
Here is Shep O’Neal with our story.
A man stood on a railroad bridge in Alabama looking down into the swift waters of the Owl…
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