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Ambrose Bierce A mbrose Bierce was the author of supernatural stories that have secured his place in both the weird tradition and in American letters at large. The stories in his two primary volumes, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (a.k.a., In the Midst of Life , 1892) and Can Such Things Be? (1893) often added a Western setting to Gothic fiction and, more importantly, developed the psychological aspects of horror first recognized by Poe. He is also noted for his tales of the Civil War, which drew on his own experience as a Union cartographer and officer. His first job in journalism was as editor for the San Francisco News-Letter and California Advertiser (1868-72), writing the entries of the "Town Crier" which constituted the first real newspaper column. Perhaps we can say that his true love was satire in any form whether ghost story or fable, newspaper column or lyrical lambaste, fantasy or pseudo-lexicography. In time, Bierce established himself a kind of literary dictator of the West Coast and was so respected and feared as a critic that his judgement could "make or break" an aspiring author's reputation. Well-known by his mere initials, A.G.B., his enemies and detractors called him "Almighty God Bierce." He was also nicknamed "Bitter Bierce" and his nihilistic motto was "Nothing matters." Apart from a few well-anthologized ghost stories (notably, "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"), Bierce is best remembered for his cynical but humorous Devil's Dictionary (see Publishing News, below).

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23. Ambrose Bierce Quotes 173 quotes and quotations by ambrose bierce. ambrose bierce Abstainer a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/ambrose_bierce.html

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Fiction Non-Fiction Young Readers Poetry ... Members :: Tools Printer-friendly Ambrose Bierce Titles in Short Stories category: Affair At Coulter's, The "Do you think, colonel, that your brave Coulter would like to put one of his guns in here!" the general asked. Affair Of Outposts, An Two men sat in conversation. One was the Governor of the State. The year was 1861; the war was on and the Governor already famous for the intelligence and zeal with which he directed all the powers and resources of his State to the service of the Union. Arrest, An Having murdered his brother-in-law, Orrin Brower of Kentucky was a fugitive from justice. From the county jail where he had been confined to await his trial he had escaped by knocking down his jailer with an iron bar, robbing him of his keys and, opening the outer door, walking out into ... Baby Tramp, A If you had seen little Jo standing at the street corner in the rain, you would hardly have admired him. It was apparently an ordinary autumn rainstorm, but the water which fell upon Jo (who was hardly old enough to be either just or unjust, and so perhaps did not come under the law of imp ... Baffled Ambuscade, A

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27. PAL: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) The letters of ambrose bierce. edited by Bertha Clark Pope; with a memoir by George Sterling. San Francisco The Book Club of California, 1922. PS1097 . http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/bierce.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 6: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) AB Bibliography A Brief Biography The AB Project Primary Works ... Home Page Source: Reflections on Great Literature - AB The Devil's Dictionary (1911). - Written for this webpage by Hellen Lee-Keller, author of "Civilizing Violence: 'The Haunted Valley.'" AB Project Journal Primary Works The Fiend's Delight, 1872 (writing as Dod Grile); Nuggets and Dust, Nuggets And Dust Panned Out in California, 1872 (writing as Dod Grile); The Fiend's Delight, Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, 1874 (writing as Dod Grile); The Dance of Death, 1877 (writing as William Herman) (with Thomas A Harcourt); The Dance of Life: An Answer to the Dance of Death, 1877 (writing as Mrs J Milton Bowers); Black Beetles In Amber, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Black Beetles in Amber Can Such Things Be?

28. Literature @ SunSITE: Ambrose Bierce First published in Ambrosia (July 24, 1972) as ambrose bierce A Literary Analysis. Revised February 1996 and March 1997. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Bierce/

Ambrose Bierce Manuscript Material Ambrose Bierce Papers Archival finding aids for collections of Bierce's papers and related material at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Stanford University Library, the UCLA Library, and the California Historical Society. Writings The Devil's Dictionary The most irreverent and sardonic definitions of common terms this side of the inferno. Don't say we didn't warn you... Related Materials Ambrose Bierce, Master of the Macabre A biographical essay by Alan Gullette. First published in Ambrosia (July 24, 1972) as "Ambrose Bierce: A Literary Analysis." Revised February 1996 and March 1997. Document maintained at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Bierce/ by the SunSITE Manager. Last update 6/25/97. SunSITE Manager: manager@sunsite.berkeley.edu

29. Ambrose Bierce Think of him as the forgotten brother of Mark Twain. Both had remarkably similar lives, were good friends, and lived in San Francisco around the same time. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8109/

Stories Books Resources Links Think of him as the forgotten brother of Mark Twain. Both had remarkably similar lives, were good friends, and lived in San Francisco around the same time. Bierce, however, followed a different path than Twain. While both had similar humor, and were equals in their genius, Bierce clearly was the better when it came to wit. Public figures quaked in fear of his satirical pen, and newspapers sales soared when he was published. Over the years, many of his jabs at the establishment appeared in local newspapers and were later collected into The Devil's Dictionary, one of the greatest works of satire of the 19th century. Andrew Gray

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31. The Devil's Dictionary By Ambrose Bierce - Project Gutenberg Download the free eBook The Devil s Dictionary by ambrose bierce. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/972

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32. Ambrose Bierce To His Niece Lora Author s last letter before he disappeared into Mexico in 1913. http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/bierce/ambrose-bierce.html

Amborse Bierce "Death is not the end," wrote Ambrose Bierce, "there remains litigation over the estate." "Bitter Bierce," as he was often called, was an unapologetic misanthrope who loathed humanity and took pleasure in deflating every inspiring myth or optimistic sentiment with a sharp comment. After serving in the Civil War and seeing up close the depths to which man could sink he became a journalist in San Francisco infamous for cutting one-liners and put-downs. In October 1913, at the age of seventy-one, Bierce decided to quit the United States and observe the Pancho Villa revolution in Mexico. Before leaving, he wrote the following letter to his niece Lora ("Carlt" is her husband, Carlton.) Ambrose Bierce Bids Farewell to his Niece Lora "Civilization be dinged! It is the mountains and the desert for me." Dear Lora, I go away tomorrow for a long time, so this is only to say good-bye. I think there is nothing else worth saying; therefore you will naturally expect a long letter. What an intolerable world this would be if we said nothing but what is worth saying! And did nothing foolish like going into Mexico and South America.

33. Ambrose Bierce Finally, in his essay, ambrose bierce An Appraisal, Frederic Taber Cooper reflects bierce s theme of mental anguish by referring to A Horseman in the http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/bierce.htm

Postbellum America, 1865-1913 Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914? By Stacey Ann Singletary Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce was one of thirteen children of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Bierce. At seventeen, Bierce attended the Kentucky Military Institute and two years later he served in the Union army of the Civil War. It was in the war that Bierce discovered death and destruction. Bierce transformed these Civil War experiences into powerful short stories such as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga." Bierce enlisted with the Ninth Indiana Infantry and fought in one of the first battles of the Civil War at Philippi, West Virginia. Only three months later did Bierce begin to battle with the effects of war as he carried one of his dying comrades across a battlefield. In 1862, the Civil War heightened, and Bierce was involved in several bloody battles at Shiloh, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Kenesaw Mountain. As Bierce's participation in the war increased, so did his acts of bravery. Thus, he rose through the ranks to become a sergeant, then a lieutenant, and finally positioned as a topographical engineer. After receiving a severe head wound in June of 1864, his brother, Albert, nurtured Bierce back to health. Despite his second command of a leave of absence, Bierce reenlisted with the Fourth Army Corps. He was finally discharged in the spring of 1865. Bierce's literary career began shortly after his dismissal (DLB 74: 22-23).

34. Fiction: An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge ambrose bierce. A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man s hands were behind his http://fiction.eserver.org/short/occurrence_at_owl_creek.html

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35. Ambrose Bierce Quotes Love A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. ambrose bierce (41) http://quotes4all.net/quotations/ambrose bierce/quotes.html

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36. E-dition Presents: Ambrose G. Bierce Selected Works ambrose G. bierce, an ebook for the student and the curious by Edition. Selected Works hyperlinked to the famous Devil s Dictionary. http://www.e-dition.net/ambrose_bierce.html

if(document.referrer) document.write(''); BUY NOW Ambrose G. Bierce Selected Works ... Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio; son of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Sherwood Bierce. He was the youngest of a large brood of children, whom Marcus, for reasons unknown, anointed with names beginning with A This easy to navigate ebook contains a biography and bibliography of Ambrose G. Bierce and his fables, stories and poems. You can set three bookmarks and jump directly to the places you were at your last reading You can take notes from within the ebook with our integrated notepad You can jump to stories, dictionary, poems with this table of contents. Most of the stories above are hyperlinked, as much as possible, to the Devil's Dictionary. This feature provides a quick look at the meaning of a word according to Bierce. You can Find the whole ebook for a word or a sentence. Although we have a philosophy of saving paper, this ebook can print each page. document.write(""); Version 2.0.0.1 Date: August 6, 2007

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38. Ambrose Bierce, "the Old Gringo": Fact, Fiction And Fantasy ambrose bierce, the Old Gringo Fact, Fiction and Fantasy. http://ojinaga.com/bierce/

Ambrose Bierce, "the Old Gringo": Fact, Fiction and Fantasy Glenn Willeford MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary War is fertile ground for the creative mind. In 1913 a writer who had experienced the American Civil War came to Chihuahua in order to see more bloodshed, this time in the Mexican Revolution. The two conflicts were similar in nature. Had Ambrose Bierce survived his visit to Mexico he would, no doubt, have written some gripping literature about Mexican warfare. But he did not survive, and his literary legacy does not extend beyond his retirement from journalism in 1913. Who was Bierce, and what brought him from the safety of a comfortable retirement to the battlefields of the Mexican desert? To answer the question, one must understand what events made the man, especially his service as a soldier. Like the Mexican revolution, the American Civil War was a conflict between paisanos It is therefore interesting that Bierce, who was 71 years old at the time, came to Chihuahua in order to observe the Mexican Revolution. In fact, he seems never to have left! And therein lies one of the most intriguing as well as unsolved mysteries, that remains from that difficult period of history.

39. Ambrose Bierce's Criticism Of Oscar Wilde - 1882 ambrose bierce’s stinging denunciation of Oscar Wilde appeared in the March 31, 1882, edition of “The Wasp.” Wilde had spoken in San Francisco on March 27, http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/bierce.html

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