Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time. Many of the earliest books,...

A Cynic Looks at Life is a classic collection of essays and observations on life by the great American humorist, Ambrose Bierce. This collection contains the following titles: Civilization -- The gift o' gab -- Natura benigna -- The death penalty -- Immortality --...

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Illustrated with beautiful chapter headings that match the book cover!Misanthropes, grumps, and the hopelessly jaded will relish every ruthlessly witty word of Ambrose Bierce's essay collection A Cynic Looks at Life. Bierce unleashes his jaundiced eye and incisive insight on a number of topics...

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 1530924200ISBN-13: 9781530924202Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

A breezy day and a sunny landscape. An open country to right and left and forward; behind, a wood. In the edge of this wood, facing the open but not venturing into it, long lines of troops halted. The wood is alive with them,...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce had a diverse literary, military and journalistic career, during which his sardonic view of human nature ensured he was both frequently critical and frequently criticised. As a writer, his work included short stories, fables, editorials and his journalism, which was often...

Journalist, short story writer, a poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce has been called one of America's greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He wrote unsparingly and with haunting realism of his Civil War experiences. His finest and most famous Civil War writings are gathered...

The Devil's Dictionary did not reappear in Bierce's next column ("Prattle," in the magazine The Argonaut, of which he had become an editor in March 1877). Nevertheless, he used the idea of comic definitions in his columns dated November 17, 1877, and September 14,...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - Circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His style often embraces an...

Author: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 1598531026ISBN-13: 9781598531022Publisher: Library of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2011Pages: 864Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.21h x 5.13w x 1.18dReview Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 10/30/2011 pg. 20New York Review of Books 05/10/2012 pg. 52About the AuthorS. T. Joshi, editor, is the author of H....

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" or "A Dead Man's Dream" is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians....

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) by Ambrose Bierce. In this text Bierce creatively uses both structure and content to explore the concept of time, from present to past, and reflecting...

Ambrose Bierce's "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story that is indispensable in any anthology of short stories. Located in the historic event that was the 1860 Civil War between the states of the North and the South, the author paints a...

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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913). Originally published by the The San Francisco Examiner in 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. The story, which is set...

Ambrose Bierce's haunting Civil War story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as Union soldiers are hanging him. In the brief period between the tightening of...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Peyton Farquhar, a plantation owner in his mid-thirties, is being prepared for execution by...

The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his neck. In a moment he will meet his fate: DEATH BY HANGING. There is no escape. Or is there? Find out in . . ....

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

Easily one of Ambrose Bierce's most popular stories, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge has fascinated readers since its first publication and was even adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone.Author: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 1496092546ISBN-13: 9781496092540Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2014Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

Ambrose Bierce wrote stories so dramatically different from those of his contemporaries that they hardly seem like they were written in the nineteenth century. These original and innovative tales, most of which appeared in the 1880s and 1890s, constitute 23 examples of his best...

This collection of stories is made up of Ten original and imaginative tales by Bierce including his masterpiece, "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" as well as, "Beyond The Wall"; "The Boarded Window", "The Damned Thing", "The Death Of Halpin Frayser", "Moxon's Master", "The...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. Peyton Farquhar, a plantation owner in his mid-thirties, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Alabama railroad bridge during the American Civil War. Six military men and a company of infantrymen are present,...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" or "A Dead Man's Dream" is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians....

For there be divers sorts of death--some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit.-- An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose BierceDirect me, I beseech you, to Carcosa.-- An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose BierceStrange is the night...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic,...

Author: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 8888303707ISBN-13: 9798888303702Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2023Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 8888303715ISBN-13: 9798888303719Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2023Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Can Such Things Be? By Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer. Bierce's book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story...

Can Such Things Still Be? Complete Literary Guide to the King in Yellow This book contains the source works that began with Ambrose Bierce's creation of Hastur and Carcosa, were turned into works of madness-inducing terror by Robert W. Chambers which also introduced the...

Celepha s is a collection of fantastic short stories authored by Howard Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allan Poe with an introduction by Sigmund Freud. The main theme of the stories is the dream world, whether dreams inspired during sleep or with...

In The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined "war" as "a by-product of the arts of peace." A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about "courage," "honor," and "glory" on the battlefield. These stories form one of the great antiwar statements in American...

Popular American writer Ambrose Bierce comes alive in the magnificent collection of short stories. Having been no stranger to the battlefield, Bierce draws upon his experience as a soldier and the stories he heard during the American Civil War in this collection. However, his...

Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the...

Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the...

Newspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of barbed epigrams, The...

A certain Persian nobleman obtained from a cow gipsy a small oyster. Holding him up by the beard, he addressed him thus: "You must try to forgive me for what I am about to do; and you might as well set about it at...

From the beginning of his career, Ambrose Bierce wrote stories of all different types-humorous sketches, satirical squibs, and weird tales. This volume prints some of his most memorable fiction-his tales of psychological and supernatural horror. Bierce was a profound student of the psychology of...

It took Ambrose Bierce some time to process his Civil War experiences and transmute them into fiction, but when he did so, beginning in the 1880s, he produced some of the most memorable stories to emerge out of that conflict. Many of these tales...

Ambrose Bierce's satirical flair is most prevalent in his tall tales and similar sketches, where all manner of human foibles are lampooned: the excesses of the press; the corruption endemic in business; the absurdities of class distinctions; and so on. Several tales depict buffooneries...

Ambrose Bierce, a contemporary of Mark Twain's, is known for his irreverent wit, sharp sarcasm, and sardonic view of human nature. His perennial classic of American satire, The Devil's Dictionary, offers biting observations that lampoon people, politics, American society, and its most cherished institutions....

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Reproduction of the original: Fantastic Fables by Ambrose BierceAuthor: Ambrose BierceISBN-10: 3734081505ISBN-13: 9783734081507Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.49d