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Author : Roy Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195126280
"Chronicles the life and career of the acerbic author, from his youth, through his experiences during the Civil War, to his 1913 disappearance in revolution-torn Mexico"-OCLC
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111568
Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788074843952
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which Bierce worked for decades. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. The definitions provide satirical, witty and often politically pointed representations of the words that is seeks to "define". The Devil's Dictionary has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce".
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:153614366
Author : Ambrose Bierce,Bernhard Tauchnitz
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1010241575
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528786010
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 its transitional and illusive qualities. The story is one of Bierce’s most popular and acclaimed works, alongside “The Devil’s Dictionary” (1911). Bierce (1842-c. 1914) was an American writer, journalist and Civil War veteran associated with the realism literary movement. His writing is noted for its cynical, brooding tones and structural precision.
Author : Christopher Kiernan Coleman
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621901793
-While biographers have made much of the influence of the Civil War on Bierce and his work, none have undertaken to write a detailed account of his war experience. Likewise, among literary critics, Bierce's status in nineteenth-century American realism has led critics to explore the relationship of his wartime experiences to his output, but they have often done so without a deep understanding of his wartime experience. This manuscript concentrates closely on that experience, examining Bierce's few autobiographical writings, official records, secondary sources, and his works to come up with a portrait of the Ambrose Bierce during the Civil War era---
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803260717
Treasury of ninety-three short works includes horror stories, realistic narratives of war, and tall tales of the old West
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803260873
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 literature. Included here are the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, The Mocking Bird, The Coup de Grâce, Parker Anderson, Philosopher, and other stories celebrated for their intensity, startling insight, and mastery of form.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726553703
"The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter" tells the tale of 17th century monk Ambrosius, who meets a young girl named Benedicta, a hangman’s daughter, who is shunned by her community because of her father’s profession. A friendship develops between the two, and when the girl’s virtue gets corrupted, Ambrosius is ready to fight for her. It is a story of friendship, love, morality, and redemption. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was as mysterious as his strange stories; sometime around 1914 he left for Mexico, wanting to experience the Mexican Revolution firsthand, and was never to be seen again.
Author : Donald T. Blume
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0873387783
Donald T. Blume rejects the view that In the Midst of Life, the second volume of Bierce's collected works, is his most important literary work. Instead, he posits that Bierce's original 1892 collection is his most definitive and authoritative opus.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015033961171
This volume contains a generous selection of Bierce's poems: they are alternately ironic, melancholy, bitter, and wickedly amusing. There are also fifteen essays and letters on poetry, poets, and such topics as "Wit and Humor" and "The Passing of Satire." Certainly there have been few authors more intimately familiar with wit and satire than the brilliant, iconoclastic Bierce. As editor M. E.
Author : Jan Freeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780802719706
In 1893, Ambrose Bierce declared "I am for preserving the ancient, primitive distinction between right and wrong." In Write it Right, originally published in 1909, Bierce turned this considerable zeal on the English language. The result revealed that the satirical author of The Devil's Dictionary had a keen ear for the vernacular--and that he hated it. This slim volume of his 300 or so reviled words and expressions contains many we use today with no hesitation at all. (Of "electrocution" he says, "To one having even an elementary knowledge of Latin grammar this word is no less than disgusting, and the thing meant by it is felt to be altogether too good for the word's inventor.") Jan Freeman, author of the weekly column "The Word" for the Boston Globe, annotates Bierce's rulings with style, humor, and in-depth research, revealing what Bierce got right--and what he didn't--and giving insight into how the language has changed over the past century. Write it Right, with its incisive wit and insight into the history of American English, is the perfect gift for word curmudgeons everywhere.
Author : Stuart C. Woodruff
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1964-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822974024
One of the most interesting figures to emerge at the turn of the twentieth century was Ambrose Bierce, whose acerbic columns in the San Francisco Examiner spread his fame as America’s most bitter cynic and misanthrope, and whose disappearance into Mexico surrounded his name with an aura of mystery. Although best known during his lifetime for his journalism and always critical of his own writing—“the magnificent intention mocked by the actual achievement”—Bierce’s fiction endures, especially his short stories about the Civil War. Originally published in the 1890s and rediscovered in the 1920s, the Civil War stories are filled with unsparing descriptions of death and suffering, disillusionment and fatalism. They also show a concern for form and craftsmanship, a controlled irony, and an economy of detail that are distinctly modern. In this pioneering study of Bierce’s stories, Stuart Woodruff examines the best and worst of Bierce’s fiction with clarity and excellent critical sense, and he traces the causes of Bierce’s success and failure as a writer, analyzing his inability to reconcile the extremes of temperament and belief that marked his life and give his stories their characteristic form. Among the pieces discussed: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “The Mocking-bird,” “One of the Missing,” “Chickamauga,” “Haïta the Shepherd,” “What I Saw at Shiloh,” and excerpts from The Devil’s Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Double 9 Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9361153242
"The Cynic's Word Book," usually called "The Devil's Dictionary," is a satirical and humorous lexicon penned through the acerbic wit of Ambrose Bierce. This collection of cynical definitions gives a sardonic observation on language, human nature, and societal norms. Bierce, a grasp of wit and sarcasm, redefines words in a manner that exposes the absurdities and contradictions of contemporary way of life. The entries in this lexicon range from witty and incisive to darkly funny, providing readers a biting critique of various components of existence, politics, and human behavior. Bierce's sharp observations, often laced with irony and skepticism, replicate his disdain for hypocrisy and pretension. "The Cynic's Word Book" stands as an undying work of satirical literature, showcasing Bierce's eager intellect and disdain for the superficialities of his generation. Through his smart and often subversive definitions, Bierce invitations readers to impeach the conventions of language and thought, turning in a thought-frightening but exciting exploration of the human circumstance.
