61. Ambrose G. Bierce - Ohio History Central - A Product Of The Ohio Historical Soci An important American author, ambrose bierce was born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio. He received a limited education and left school at an early http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=33

62. Biography : Ambrose Gwinett Bierce, Author Of The Devil's Dictionary, Journalist ambrose Gwinett bierce is very impressed by the American Civil War during which he distinguishes himself in the ranks of the Union. http://atheisme.free.fr/Biographies/Bierce_e.htm

Welcome Atheism Biographies > Ambrose G. Bierce Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Biography of Ambrose Gwinett Bierce : American journalist, writer, satirical humorist, essayist, poet and novelist. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce is very impressed by the American Civil War during which he distinguishes himself in the ranks of the Union. Then, he contributes to the News Letter of San Francisco before settling, in 1872, for four years, in London. There, he works as newspaper columnist for the humor magazine "Fun". With a lot of black humor and a caustic style, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce tackles the established and reasonable values and the religion too. His macabre tales and his satirist and terrifying fables keep the marks of his real-life experience during the Civil War. He describes the fights of this one with a very strong realism, almost unbearable. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce is a friend and a rival of Mark Twain. He is an avant-garde novelist in the United States. Attracted by the Mexican revolution, he gets involved, at the age of seventy-one, by the side of Pancho Villa, but he mysteriously disappears during a battle in 1914. Bibliography : Black Beetles in Amber (1892), Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891), Can Such Things Be? (1893), Fantastic Fables (1899), Shapes of Clay (1903) The Devil's Dictionary (originally under the title The Cynic's Word Book 1906), Collected Works (1912).

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Ambrose Bierce Also known as: Ambrose Bierce A. Bierce Ambroce Bierce Ambroice Bierce ... see complete list Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Ambrose Bierce combine/separate works The devil's dictionary 1451 copies, 13 reviews Civil War stories 180 copies, 1 review The complete short stories of Ambrose Bierce 129 copies, review 92 copies, 1 review Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce 86 copies, review 76 copies, review The enlarged Devil's dictionary 76 copies, 1 review 53 copies, review 49 copies, 1 review Fantastic fables 40 copies, review 40 copies, 1 review The sardonic humor of Ambrose Bierce 37 copies, review Can such things be? 37 copies, review Ambrose Bierce's Civil War 32 copies, 1 review 27 copies, review see all 103 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know.

64. Ambrose Bierce As often as I have set out to write about ambrose bierce as a California Author, I have turned aside from the task, principally because it s so very hard to http://www.cateweb.org/CA_Authors/bierce.html

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?) by Janice Albert WOMAN, n. As often as I have set out to write about Ambrose Bierce as a California Author, I have turned aside from the task, principally because it's so very hard to be in the presence of his cynical pessimism for very long. Then I am reminded of the hold he has over the American imagination, and I try again to deal with the question of why we should know more about him. His story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," is taught to school children throughout the land. In addition, the legend of Bierce-his disappearance at age 71 near the Mexican border-continues to inspire travelers and speculators; recently, for example, "The Devil and Ambrose Bierce" by Jacob Silverstein in the February 2002 issue of the esteemed Harper's Magazine . He has inspired hundreds of articles, books and dissertations, and drawn the attention of men of letters of the caliber of Clifton Fadiman and Carey McWilliams. Besides, his vitriolic attacks were not only directed at women (see above). He attacked men and women with equal force, although perhaps more men than women because at the time they operated in a larger and more varied sphere. From 1887 to 1896, at the height of his career, he wrote as a columnist for the Sunday Edition of Hearst's San Francisco

65. Metroactive Books | Ambrose Bierce From the newspaper wars of San Francisco to the literary salons of Los Gatos, ambrose bierce was a 20thcentury cynic in 19th-century California http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.29.96/cover/bierce-9635.html

Books Index Metro Metroactive Central Archives Fierce Bierce From the newspaper wars of San Francisco to the literary salons of Los Gatos, Ambrose Bierce was a 20th-century cynic in 19th-century California By Richard von Busack CYNIC: A blackguard who whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary A MBROSE BIERCE, turn-of-the-century California's most notorious and acid-tongued writer, once dispatched a hapless author with a review that consisted solely of the sentence "The covers of this book are too far apart." Roy Morris' outstanding new biography, Ambrose Bierce, Alone in Bad Company, happily avoids that withering judgment and provides a welcome opportunity to reconsider America's first true cynic. Cynicism as a literary stance is most often traced to the disillusionment of World War I. Bierce, already nicely disillusioned by the Civil War, anticipated the misanthropic modernist mood of writers like Ernest Hemingway and H.L. Mencken. Although Bierce's devastating short stories about the war between the statesmost notably "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"and his wickedly jaundiced The Devil's Dictionary are his most lasting literary legacies, he earned his living and his reputation in the trenches as a journalist and critic for William Randolph Hearst's muckraking

66. Moxon's Master/Bierce MOXON S MASTER. by. ambrose Gwinnett bierce. Chessmen. Are you serious?—do you really believe a machine thinks? I got no immediate reply; http://sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/l_moxon.htm

M OXON'S M ASTER by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce "Are you serious?—do you really believe a machine thinks?" I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly here and there with the fire-poker till they signified a sense of his attention by a brighter glow. For several weeks I had been observing in him a growing habit of delay in answering even the most trivial of commonplace questions. His air, however, was that of preoccupation rather than deliberation: one might have said that he had "something on his mind." Presently he said: "What is a 'machine'? The word has been variously defined. Here is one definition from a popular dictionary: 'Any instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or a desired effect produced.' Well, then, is not a man a machine? And you will admit that he thinks—or thinks he thinks." "If you do not wish to answer my question," I said, rather testily, "why not say so?—all that you say is mere evasion. You know well enough that when I say 'machine' I do not mean a man, but something that man has made and controls." "When it does not control him," he said, rising abruptly and looking out of a window, whence nothing was visible in the blackness of a stormy night. A moment later he turned about and with a smile said:

67. Airynothingblog: Ambrose Bierce For Today ambrose bierce For Today. Christmas, n. That time of year when people spend money they haven t got on things they don t want. Posted by baralbion at 1949 http://baralbion.blogspot.com/2007/12/ambrose-bierce-for-today.html

skip to main skip to sidebar airynothingblog The truth is seldom pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde 06 December 2007 Ambrose Bierce For Today Christmas, n. That time of year when people spend money they haven't got on things they don't want. Posted by baralbion at Labels: Ambrose Bierce comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Language I am a founding member of a message board on language. Take a look. Scroll down to the Discussion heading and click on Language Matters. You are welcome to comment on existing posts or to contribute a new topic. Potential Literature Workshop Click here for Variations on Jane Austen. About Me baralbion Descended from a long line of farm labourers. Educated King Edward VI School, Southampton. and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Graduated in English Language and Literature. Have subsequently studied Arabic, Greek, German and French and am qualified as a teacher of English as a foreign language. Have lived and travelled in Lebanon, Kuwait, Greece, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Tunisia. View my complete profile Blog Roll In Search of Adam The Frumplingtons Rashbre Central Gorilla Bananas ... Peter Harvey, Linguist

68. Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656+ Fables - More than 655 fables, alphabetically indexed and with morals listed, including fables from ambrose bierce and La Fontaine, with sound clips, images, http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

Click image above to Enter Online Collection The Aesop Fables website has moved to it's domain AesopFables.com Yes this is the same Aesop Fables you've known and loved for the past 9+ years. You can now get to us from AesopFables.com , .net or .org so please bookmark that site and not www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/. I have retained this site for now as a jump spot to get to the fables. This site www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/ has been deprecated because the ISP pacificnet was sold to some Canadian company and they will not allow cgi/perl to run on it now. Indeed the site relies on the program aesop1.cgi to display fables. As of September 2005 there were over 4000 links to this site, that number has been severely reduced in the past year because of the isp's unconscionable and careless mis-configuration ie: not working without the www and other broken website attributes. If you landed on this page while clicking on a link to a fable that is because I have redirected all errors to here. Any outside links of the form Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 656+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls.

69. The Devil's Dictionary / Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? THE DEVIL S DICTIONARY by ambrose bierce July, 1997 Etext 972 Date last updated January 6, 2007 The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Devil s Dictionary http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext97/dvldc10.htm

The Devil's Dictionary / Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? Author Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? Title The Devil's Dictionary Date Contributor(s) Elwes, R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro), 1853- [Translator] Size Identifier Language en Publisher Project Gutenberg Rights GNU General Public License Tag(s) man adj person word ... translator Versions original local mirror plain HTML (this file) concordance (most frequent 100 words, etc.) ... Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Share addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'ericleasemorgan'; Colophon This file was acquired from Project Gutenberg, and it is in the public domain. It is re-distributed here as a part of the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (http://infomotions.com/alex/) by Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.) for the purpose of freely sharing, distributing, and making available works of great literature. Its Infomotions unique identifier is etext972, and it should be available from the following URL: http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext97/dvldc10.htm Infomotions Man says, "Give back to the 'Net."

70. Aesop's Fables - Fantastic Fables By Ambrose Bierce - 656+ Fables ambrose bierce Fables. This Collection of Aesop s Fables is the largest online exhibit of Aesop and other Fables, on the net. There are 656+ fables, http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopab.html

Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce Online Collection Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), 245 Fables with a flair of modernism and legality. Of the ones that are of a similar title, the story is quite different from what would normally be Aesop; often with a twisted humor. Some are outright hilarious the way he makes the original fable have a different meaning. The fables are slightly of a more mature nature but still readable by any age. There are no morals to go with these but the meaning is still there. They are not sorted and the order is as published. Lesson Plans Comments / Suggestions Suggested Morals 181 Original Fables The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine The Ingenious Patriot ... The Dutiful Son Aesopus Emendatus - These are a little twisted.. 47 retakes The Cat and the Youth The Farmer and His Sons Jupiter and the Baby Show The Man and the Dog ... The Bellamy and the Members Old saws with new teeth - Certain ancient fables applied to the life of our times. 17 fables

71. Internet Archive: Details: Ambrose Bierce - El Diccionario Del Diablo ambrose bierce El Diccionario del Diablo. Keywords ambrose bierce; bierce;. La más famosa obra de ambrose bierce, The Devil s Dictionary, en español. http://www.archive.org/details/AmbroseBierce-ElDiccionarioDelDiablo

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72. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) Cartoonist, political satirist, poet, and writer of fiction, ambrose bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio. He enlisted very young in the 9th Indiana http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/22.html

Poet Index Poem Index Random Search ... Concordance document.writeln(divStyle) Selected Poetry of Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries Index to poems Take not God's name in vain: select A time when it will have effect. ("Decalogue") "Alone" "Decalogue" "Elegy" "Freedom" ... With a Book Notes on Life and Works San Francisco Examiner (from 1887) and afterwards Washington correspondent for the New York American (1909), later titled Biographical information Given name : Ambrose Family name : Bierce Birth date Death date Your comments and questions are welcomed. RPO Editors Department of English , and University of Toronto Press RPO is hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries

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