The Middle Toe of the Right Foot

The Middle Toe of the Right Foot 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: It is well known that the old Manton house is haunted. In all the rural district near about, and even in the town of Marshall, a mile away, not one person of unbiased mind entertains a doubt of it; incredulity is confined to those opinionated persons who will be called "cranks" as soon as the useful This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.