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The unabridged devil's dictionary
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117 editions published between 1911 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 4,936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Hundreds of pointed definitions, maxims, apocryphal quotations, and satirical verses attest to the power of the author's delightful, incisive wit
Can such things be
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62 editions published between 1893 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of spine-chilling tales from a master of horror, Can Such Things Be? is brimming with supernatural occurrences, shifting perspectives, and the psychological twists and turns for which Bierce is famous. Including such offerings as The Death of Halpin Frayser," Moxon's Master," and The Damned Thing," this suspenseful collection is enhanced by a hint of Bierce's life and personality
In the midst of life : tales of soldiers and civilians
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121 editions published between 1800 and 2011 in English and held by 2,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Published in 1891, this collection of 26 bone-chilling short stories is set during the American Civil War. It is divided, as the title suggests, between tales of soldiers and tales of civilians. Many have a strong element of horror or the supernatural, such as the justly famous "The Incident at Owl Creek Bridge."
The collected writings of Ambrose Bierce
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53 editions published between 1946 and 1999 in English and held by 2,017 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Devil's dictionary
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10 editions published between 1978 and 2007 in English and held by 1,380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce
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16 editions published between 1970 and 2008 in English and held by 1,307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them "The Death of Halpin Frayser" and "The Damned Thing," and such tall tales as "Oil of Dog" and "A Cargo of Cat,"
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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32 editions published between 1890 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author
Tales of soldiers and civilians
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13 editions published between 1943 and 2004 in English and held by 1,236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This revised edition of Ambrose Bierce's 1892 collections of Soldiers and Civilians tales fills a void in American literature. A veteran of the Civil War and a journalist known for his integrity and biting satire, Ambrose Bierce was also a lively short-story writer of considerable depth and power. As San Francisco's most famous journalist during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Bierce was hired by William Randolph Hearst to write a column for the San Francisco Examiner, where his Soldiers and Civilians tales first appeared during the late 1880s. During the post-Civil War years, Bierce recognized the growing nationalism in America and the increasing glorification of war heroes and soldiers. In response, he wrote his Soldiers tales. Although he was a Civil War veteran, Bierce had been a civilian for more than twenty years when he began to write the bulk of the nineteen tales that comprised his 1892 collection. Thus, the Civilians tales were written as a counterpoint to the preceding war stories. Bierce's intent was to explore the complex interconnections between soldiers and civilians. He recognized in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians that war and peace together comprise an interacting harmony. By the standards of his day and ours, Bierce's journalism was often brilliantly insightfully, viciously libelous, petty, and grand, frequently in the space of a single paragraph. This edition reveals the often compelling artistry of Bierce's original versions of the tales and the intentionally intricate design and scope of the original collection
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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5 editions published between 1988 and 1996 in English and held by 1,202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging
Fantastic fables
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in English and held by 1,172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The monk and the hangman's daughter
by Ambrose Bierce
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47 editions published between 1891 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter is a example of the type of pseudo-medieval tale which was popular on the continent toward the end of the 19th century and has become a favorite among Symbolists
Ghost and horror stories
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7 editions published between 1964 and 1981 in English and held by 921 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Twenty-four stories -- morbid, eerie, cynical. They take you into the dark recesses of the mind
The enlarged Devil's dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
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31 editions published between 1967 and 2001 in English and held by 913 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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8 editions published between 1982 and 2012 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 863 WorldCat member libraries worldwide During the United States Civil War, a condemned man has many thoughts as he stands on a bridge, awaiting hanging. And other western short stories
The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs
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5 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 856 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance --
Write it right, a little blacklist of literary faults
by Ambrose Bierce
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40 editions published between 1909 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 744 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Published in 1909, this is an amusing collection of literary faults that irritated Bierce when he was reading critically. His list of pet-peeves provides many chuckles thanks to the author's sharp wit but also illustrates the extent to which the English language has changed in little more than a century
Collected works
by Ambrose Bierce
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15 editions published between 1909 and 1996 in English and held by 657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The stories and fables of Ambrose Bierce
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3 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The text of The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter ac- companies twenty-nine stories and eighty-seven fables that illuminate the nature of Bierce's preoccupations andthe distinctive features of his style
The sardonic humor of Ambrose Bierce
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4 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 624 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fantastic fables
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27 editions published between 1898 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Don't judge a book by its cover -- if you're looking for tall tales about Greek gods or American folk heroes, you're in the wrong place. Instead, noted satirist Ambrose Bierce unleashes the full wrath of his wit on the leaders of industry, church, and state in this series of sharp-edged but hilariously spot-on short tales and vignettes more
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American Civil War (1861-1865) American fiction American poetry American prose literature American wit and humor Anniversaries Arroyo, Tomás Authors, American Bierce, Ambrose, Brown, Charles Brockden, California--San Francisco Cather, Willa, Central Pacific Railroad Company Cooper, James Fenimore, Death in literature English language English language--Errors of usage English language--Semantics Fables, American Faulkner, William, Fiction Ghost stories, American Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Hemingway, Ernest, Horror tales Horror tales, American Howells, William Dean, Humorous poetry, American Irving, Washington, James, Henry, Journalists Manners and customs Melville, Herman, Norris, Frank, Paranormal fiction Poe, Edgar Allan, Science fiction, American Serial murders Short stories Short stories, American Soldiers Steinbeck, John, Twain, Mark, United States Vocabulary War correspondents War in literature War stories, American Wharton, Edith, Wolfe, Thomas,
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Bierce, Ambros
Bierce, Ambrose
Bierce, Ambrose G. 1842-1913
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett 1842-1914
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett, 1842-ca 1914
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett 1842-1913
Birs, Embrouz
Grile, Dod 1842-1913
Grile, Dod, 1842-1914?
Grile, Dod 1842-1914 Pseudonym
Grile, Dod, 1842-ca 1914
Gwinett Bierce, Ambrose 1842-1914
Piŏsŭ, Aembŭrosŭ 1842-1914
ビアス, A
ビアス, アンブローズ
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