Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
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Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the visa mer Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches. Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for… (2009) 216 exemplar
The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary (1995) 42 exemplar
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 8: Negligible Tales, On with the Dance, Epigrams (1909) 24 exemplar
Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002) 19 exemplar
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot [short story] 15 exemplar
The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader; selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist (1968) 14 exemplar
The Man and the Snake 8 exemplar
El clan de los parricidas y otros relatos 7 exemplar
The Coup de Grâce [short story] 6 exemplar
A Jug of Syrup — Författare — 5 exemplar
The letters of Ambrose Bierce, edited by Bertha Clark Pope, with a memoir by George Sterling (1922) 5 exemplar
De eeuwige oorlog oorlogsverhalen van Ambrose Bierce, Wyndham Lewis, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, (1993) 5 exemplar
A Tough Tussle [Short story] 5 exemplar
The Devil's Dictionary (Abridged Edition) 5 exemplar
Works of Ambrose Bierce. Incl: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, The Devil's Dictionary, Fantastic… (2008) 5 exemplar
Staley Fleming's Hallucination [Short story] 4 exemplar
John Bartine's Watch [Short story] 4 exemplar
The Secret of Macarger's Gulch [Short story] 4 exemplar
O dicionário do Diabo: uma seleção 4 exemplar
A Little Blue Book of Civil War Horrors 4 exemplar
The Damned Thing and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Ambrose Bierce: Annotated and… (2019) 4 exemplar
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Haita the Shepherd 4 exemplar
Haïta the Shepherd 3 exemplar
The Very Best of Ambrose Bierce Including An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge and What I Saw of Shiloh (2012) 3 exemplar
Great American Short Stories: Lekturen Englisch. Melville, Poe, Bierce, Hemingway, Capote (2009) 3 exemplar
The Night Doings At 'Deadman's' 3 exemplar
The Famous Gilson Bequest 3 exemplar
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General 3 exemplar
My Favorite Murder 3 exemplar
One Of Twins 3 exemplar
Il comportamento dei fantasmi 3 exemplar
The Ingenious Patriot 2 exemplar
Classic American Literature: 13 books by Bierce in a single file, with active table of contents, improved 7/3/2009 (2008) 2 exemplar
The Other Logers [Short story] 2 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 011 2 exemplar
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The Applicant 2 exemplar
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The Devil's Dictionary: The Lexicon of Choice for Satirists, Cynics, Skeptics, and other Enlightened Souls: A 365-Day… (2005) 2 exemplar
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The Affair At Coulter's Notch 2 exemplar
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Parker Adderson Philosopher 2 exemplar
Relatos-Diccionario del diablo/Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (In the Midst of Life) Can Such Things Be? The Devil's… (1999) 2 exemplar
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An Imperfect Conflagration 2 exemplar
Sorte historier 2 exemplar
Oczy pantery 2 exemplar
Battle Sketches 2 exemplar
A Revolt of the Gods 2 exemplar
The Realm Of The Unreal 2 exemplar
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Christmas and the New Year 1 exemplar
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Racconti neri 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037 1 exemplar
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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 050 1 exemplar
Dizionario del Diavolo 1 exemplar
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A Cargo Of Cat 1 exemplar
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[No title] 1 exemplar
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Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories, The 1 exemplar
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Baby Tramp 1 exemplar
pg972 1 exemplar
An Heiress from Redhorse [Short story] 1 exemplar
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Tales of the Civil War 1 exemplar
Across The Plains 1 exemplar
La cosa maldita y otros relatos 1 exemplar
Historias de Fantasmas 1 exemplar
Зібрання творів 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
- Andra namn
- Grile, Dod
Bierce, Bitter
Herman, William
Bowers, Mrs. J. Milton - Födelsedag
- 1842-06-24
- Avled
- 1914
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
- Dödsort
- Last seen in Chihuahua, Mexico
- Dödsorsak
- unknown
- Bostadsorter
- San Francisco, California, USA
Warsaw, Indiana, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Chihuahua, Mexico - Utbildning
- self-educated
- Yrken
- journalist
poet
essayist
critic
editor
columnist (visa alla 12)
reporter
soldier
topographical engineer
drummer boy
mining foreman
printer's apprentice - Organisationer
- 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army
San Francisco Examiner
Hearst Newspapers
Bohemian Club
Army-Navy Club
Northern Indianan (visa alla 11)
U.S. Sub-Treasury
San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser
U.S. Mint
New York American
Wasp - Kort biografi
- Disappeared in Mexico in 1914
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The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Richard Voss – LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1967 i George Macy devotees (augusti 26)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Death of Halpin Frayser" by Ambrose Bierce i The Weird Tradition (augusti 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "Beyond the Wall" by Ambrose Bierce i The Weird Tradition (juli 2015)
I just bought The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce i Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (januari 2012)
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Det är en uppslagsbok för cyniker, nattsvart i sin syn på allt och alla:
Comfort, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbour's uneasiness.
Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
Den enda som nämns med viss uppskattning är annars just doktor Johnson, i definitionen av patriotism:
In Dr Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.
Annars är boken, förutom med mörk satir och eleganta vändningar, fylld med diverse komisk vers av åldrat märke: Bierce må ha varit en god stilist, men poesin hade han inte riktigt den hand med som krävs för att den skall överleva, må vara att den än idag ibland kan vara smålustig.
Djävulens uppslagsbok kan användas även av mindre svavelinpyrda personer, i fall man vill ha något riktigt starkt och uppfriskande som inte kräver alltför mycket tid att läsa. Eller bara för att se igenom en del av den retorik som än idag alltför ofta används.… (mer)