Author: Амброз Бирс
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040514956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Get Book Here

Book Description
Ambrose Bierce could be described as the most famous prose writer you never heard of. He had grown up relatively uneducated on his father's farm, but with a vast stock of knowledge gained from reading. He served with distinction during the American Civil War, and was awarded the rank of Major, but he declined to be known by this title. His whole life seemed to be mysterious, but there is no doubting the skill and artistry of his writing.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Delphi Classics
ISBN: 1786564432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Get Book Here

Book Description
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Letters of Ambrose Bierce’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Bierce includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Letters of Ambrose Bierce’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author: Stuart C. Woodruff
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974029
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Get Book Here

Book Description
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," "Ha•ta the Shepherd," "What I Saw at Shiloh," and excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary and Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.

Author: George Sterling
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Get Book Here

Book Description
Transcripts by James D. Hart, with introduction by him.

Author: Lawrence I. Berkove
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814208946
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Get Book Here

Book Description
A Prescription for Adversity makes the revolutionary case that Ambrose Bierce, far from being a bitter misanthrope, was instead both a compassionate and moral author. Berkove, focusing on Bierce's short fiction, establishes the necessity of recognizing the pattern of his intellectual and literary development over the course of his career. The author shows that Bierce, probably the American author with the most extensive experience of the Civil War, turned to classical Stoicism and English and French Enlightenment literature in his postwar search for meaning. Bierce's fiction arose from his ultimately unsatisfying encounters with the philosophies those sources offered, but the moral commitment as well as the literary techniques of heir authors, particularly Jonathan Swift, inspired him. Dating Bierce's fiction, and introducing uncollected journalism, correspondence, and important new literary history and biographical information, Berkove brings new insights to a number of stories, including "A Son of the Gods" and "A Horseman in the Sky," but especially "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and presents compelling readings of the Parenticide Club tales and "Moxon's Master." A Prescription for Adversity substantiates how Bierce at his best is one of the few American authors who rises to the level of Mark Twain, and the only one who touches Jonathan Swift. A work of both biography and literary criticism, this book rescues Ambrose Bierce and his literature from the neglect to which it has been assigned by "ill-founded, obtuse and unproductive approaches based on skewed notions of his personality and forced or facile readings of individual stories."

Author: Bertha Clark Pope
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473394430
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Get Book Here

Book Description
This book contains a memoir and numerous letters written by the American writer, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. This volume offers the reader a unique insight into the life and mind of Bierce, and is highly recommended for those with an interest in this seminal man of letters. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an editor, journalist, and writer of short stories, as well as a keen satirist. His personal mantra "Nothing matters" and his cynical view of human nature earned him the moniker "Bitter Bierce". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Author: Alissandra Dramov
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491824131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Get Book Here

Book Description
Carmel-by-the-Sea, The Early Years (1903-1913) describes the establishment of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, along with an overview of the history of the Carmel Mission and the Monterey Peninsula. The books emphasis is on the development of Carmel as a Bohemian artists and writers colony at the start of the 20th century. The towns first decade of existence is described: the businesses and services offered, and the residential architecture. There are biographies of the well-known Bohemian artists, writers, poets, builders, and other notable residents and visitors in the early 1900s. This original group of settlers, the majority of whom came from Northern Californias Bay Area, were distinctive individuals, who were drawn to the coastal village by its scenic beauty and the inspiration it provided for their intellectual pursuits. They set the tone that made Carmel-by-the-Sea a Bohemian enclave on the West Coast, and distinguished it as a unique place. These early residents and visitors left a significant and lasting impact on the future of the seaside town, which in turn attracted other creative talents to the area, through the years and still to this day. Carmel-by-the-Sea, The Early Years (1903-1913), preserves the literary, artistic, cultural, and architectural heritage of Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula region.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 147335014X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Get Book Here

Book Description
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, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

Author: George Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Get Book Here

Book Description