The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs

The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs

by Bierce, Ambrose

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A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic …

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  • Full title :The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs / Ambrose Bierce ; S.T. Joshi, editor.

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A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S.T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance --

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 880 pages ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781598531022, 1598531026
  • oclc:ocn701019592
  • LC Classification:PS1097
  • Dewey Decimal:813.4

Subjects

Amerikanisches Englisch Anglais (Langue) -- Dictionnaires Authors, American Authors, American -- Biography. -- 19th… Bierce, Ambrose G Biographies Biography Écrivains américains -- Biographies. --… English language English language -- Dictionaries English language -- Humor. -- Semantics English Language -- Semantics États-Unis -- Récits personnels. -- His… États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -… États-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -… Fiction History humor Journalistes -- Biographies. -- États-U… Journalists

Writers

Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Joshi, S. T.

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