Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
Autor(a) de The Devil's Dictionary
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for… (2009) 219 exemplares
The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce (1958) 76 exemplares
The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary (2000) 42 exemplares
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 8: Negligible Tales, On with the Dance, Epigrams (1909) 25 exemplares
Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce (2002) 19 exemplares
The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader; selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist (1968) 14 exemplares
El clan de los parricidas y otros relatos 7 exemplares
The Coup de Grâce [short story] 6 exemplares
The letters of Ambrose Bierce, edited by Bertha Clark Pope, with a memoir by George Sterling (1922) 5 exemplares
A Jug of Syrup — Autor — 5 exemplares
De eeuwige oorlog oorlogsverhalen van Ambrose Bierce, Wyndham Lewis, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, (1993) 5 exemplares
A Tough Tussle [Short story] 5 exemplares
Works of Ambrose Bierce. Incl: Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, The Devil's Dictionary, Fantastic… (2008) 5 exemplares
The Devil's Dictionary (Abridged Edition) 5 exemplares
Ambrose Bierce's an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: An Annotated Critical Edition (2003) 5 exemplares
O dicionário do Diabo: uma seleção 4 exemplares
A Little Blue Book of Civil War Horrors 4 exemplares
The Damned Thing and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Ambrose Bierce: Annotated and… (2019) 4 exemplares
Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de sécession (Les Cahiers Rouges) (2020) 4 exemplares
La Dama De Redhorse. El Incidente En El Puente Búho. El Secreto Del Barranco De Macarger = A Lady Fr (2000) 4 exemplares
Haita the Shepherd 4 exemplares
Staley Fleming's Hallucination [Short story] 4 exemplares
The Secret of Macarger's Gulch [short story] 4 exemplares
Verschrikkelijke vertellingen 4 exemplares
John Bartine's Watch [Short story] 4 exemplares
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 001 3 exemplares
The Very Best of Ambrose Bierce Including An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge and What I Saw of Shiloh (2012) 3 exemplares
Arte de volar y otros trances / Ambrose Bierce ; selección y prólogo Ramon Dachs (2005) 3 exemplares
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General 3 exemplares
Great American Short Stories: Lekturen Englisch. Melville, Poe, Bierce, Hemingway, Capote (2009) 3 exemplares
The Famous Gilson Bequest 3 exemplares
The affair at coulter´s notch andKilled at ressaca = O caso do desfiladeiro de coulter e Morto em resaca 3 exemplares
One Of Twins 3 exemplares
Il comportamento dei fantasmi 3 exemplares
The Night Doings At 'Deadman's' 3 exemplares
My Favorite Murder 3 exemplares
Haïta the Shepherd 3 exemplares
O Caso do desfiladeiro de coulter e morto em ressaca 2 exemplares
The Applicant 2 exemplares
One Officer One Man 2 exemplares
TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS by AMBROSE BIERCE; HERITAGE PRESS CIVIL WAR (1777) — Autor — 2 exemplares
The Man Out of the Nose 2 exemplares
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Can Such Things Be? the Ways of Ghosts. Soldier-Folk. Some Haunted Houses (2010) 2 exemplares
Tales of Horror and Fantasy 2 exemplares
The Ultimate Horror Collection 2 exemplares
Classic Tales of Horror - 500+ Stories 2 exemplares
Selections from Prattle 2 exemplares
Possono accadere queste cose? 2 exemplares
Iconoclastic memories of the Civil War: Bits of autobiography (Little blue book) (1909) 2 exemplares
The Other Logers [Short story] 2 exemplares
Der Gnadenstoss - Geshichten des Grauens 2 exemplares
The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written 2 exemplares
Librivox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 005 2 exemplares
Poetry 2 exemplares
The Ingenious Patriot 2 exemplares
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 011 2 exemplares
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 014 2 exemplares
A Lady From Red Horse 2 exemplares
Parker Adderson Philosopher 2 exemplares
Relatos-Diccionario del diablo/Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (In the Midst of Life) Can Such Things Be? The Devil's… (1999) 2 exemplares
Classic American Literature: 13 books by Bierce in a single file, with active table of contents, improved 7/3/2009 (2008) 2 exemplares
The Affair At Coulter's Notch 2 exemplares
George Thurston Three Incidents in the Life of a Man 2 exemplares
Oczy pantery 2 exemplares
A clash of titans : Ambrose Bierce, Collis Huntington, and the 1896 fight to refund the Central Pacific's debt to the… (2010) 2 exemplares
The Realm Of The Unreal 2 exemplares
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 013 2 exemplares
An Imperfect Conflagration 2 exemplares
The Story Of A Conscience 2 exemplares
Sorte historier 2 exemplares
A Revolt of the Gods 2 exemplares
The Failure of Hope and Wandel [Short story] 2 exemplares
Battle Sketches 2 exemplares
Owl Creek and Other Stories (Macmillan Reader) 2 exemplares
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 004 2 exemplares
Seven fables 2 exemplares
The Devil's Dictionary: The Lexicon of Choice for Satirists, Cynics, Skeptics, and other Enlightened Souls: A 365-Day… (2005) 2 exemplares
Devil's Dictionaries, Revised and Expanded: The Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's... by Bierce, Ambrose… (1600) 1 exemplar
Devil's Dictionary (excerpts) 1 exemplar
Christmas and the New Year 1 exemplar
De dodenwacht 1 exemplar
De weg in het maanlicht 1 exemplar
Quella cosa infernale: e 12 racconti macabri 1 exemplar
Racconti neri 1 exemplar
La rivolta degli dei 1 exemplar
Enigmas y fantasmas: narraciones 1 exemplar
E possivel? 1 exemplar
Diabli dykcjonarz 1 exemplar
Rare Heritage Press ~ The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter ~ Ambrose Bierce ~ Slipcase (1777) 1 exemplar
El guardián del huerto 1 exemplar
Dizionario del Diavolo 1 exemplar
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter and Other Stories (includes An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) (1955) 1 exemplar
One of the Missing [short story] 1 exemplar
Un cittadino di Carcosa 1 exemplar
Favole a orologeria 1 exemplar
I racconti dell’oltretomba 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069 1 exemplar
Occurrence at Owl Creek & Other Stories. 1 exemplar
Las profanaciones de Ambroce Bierce 1 exemplar
Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales) 1 exemplar
Une aventure à Brownville 1 exemplar
El reino de lo irreal 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 066 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 064 1 exemplar
Uprostřed života 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 036 1 exemplar
Nightmare Classics: Eyes of the Panther [1989 TV episode] — Writer — 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029 1 exemplar
Historias de soldados 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065 1 exemplar
Una Dama De Redhorse / El Incidente En El Puente Del Búho, El Secreto (COLECCIÓN LIBROS BILINGÜES… (2008) 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 070 1 exemplar
Legkedvesebb gyilkosságom 1 exemplar
Ebolaj 1 exemplar
Short Story Collection Vol. 002 1 exemplar
“A Horseman in the Sky” 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067 1 exemplar
The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Gothic/Horror) 1 exemplar
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 12: Kings of Beasts; Two Administrations; Miscellaneous (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplar
The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales 1 exemplar
Der Gnadenstoß 1 exemplar
Two Military Executions 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037 1 exemplar
The City Of The Gone Away 1 exemplar
The Widower Turmore 1 exemplar
An Heiress from Redhorse [Short story] 1 exemplar
The Major's Tale 1 exemplar
Tales of the Civil War 1 exemplar
Os contos completos 1 exemplar
The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce: A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky, Cobwebs from an Empty Skull,… (2013) 1 exemplar
Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 5 1 exemplar
Ambrose Bierce: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2014) 1 exemplar
A Cold Greeting 1 exemplar
Terrore su Londra - Urania 303 1 exemplar
Curried Cow 1 exemplar
Civil War - Ein Krieg kennt keine Helden 1 exemplar
A Bivouac Of The Dead 1 exemplar
Mr. Masthead, Journalist 1 exemplar
Why I Am Not Editing "The Stinger" 1 exemplar
Corrupting The Press 1 exemplar
"The Bubble Reputation" 1 exemplar
A Shipwreckollection 1 exemplar
The Captain Of The "Camel" 1 exemplar
The Man Overboard 1 exemplar
A Cargo Of Cat 1 exemplar
Three And One Are One 1 exemplar
A Baffled Ambuscade 1 exemplar
El desconocido y otros cuentos 1 exemplar
"Mysterious Disappearances" 1 exemplar
Some Haunted Houses 1 exemplar
The Hypnotist 1 exemplar
The Little Story 1 exemplar
Mr. Swiddler's Flip-Flap 1 exemplar
A Providential Intimation 1 exemplar
Perry Chumly's Eclipse 1 exemplar
The Race At Left Bower 1 exemplar
The Baptism Of Dobsho 1 exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 050 1 exemplar
Jug of syrup 1 exemplar
El humor de Ambrose Bierce 1 exemplar
The Crimson Candle 1 exemplar
The Collected Works, Vol II 1 exemplar
The Collected Works, Vol I 1 exemplar
Cloak And Dagger 1 exemplar
The Birds and the Frogs 1 exemplar
The Tail of the Sphinx [Short story] 1 exemplar
Cuentos de horror 1 exemplar
EL PUENTE SOBRE EL RIO DEL BUHO 1 exemplar
Rare The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce ~ Limited Editions Club (1777) 1 exemplar
pg972 1 exemplar
tales of horror & suspense LP 1 exemplar
Aus dem Wörterbuch des Teufels / From the Devil's Dictionary. Englisch - Deutsch. Englisch- Deutsch. 1 exemplar
Devil's Dictionary Calendar for 2006 1 exemplar
The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written (2013) 1 exemplar
Il Club dei parenticidi (Fogli volanti) 1 exemplar
Non sempre si mangia cio che e in tavola 1 exemplar
An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge: Simplified For Modern Readers (Accelerated Reader Quiz # 7928) (2013) 1 exemplar
Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories, The 1 exemplar
British Mystery Multipack 13: The Aspern Papers, The Case of Lady Sannox, Owl Creek Bridge, The Necklace, The Pit and… (2017) 1 exemplar
Baby Tramp 1 exemplar
Historias de Fantasmas 1 exemplar
The Lion and The Lamb 1 exemplar
Great Classic Horror: Six Unabridged Stories 1 exemplar
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 6: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter; Fantastic Fables (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplar
Across The Plains 1 exemplar
A Man With Two Lives 1 exemplar
La cosa maldita y otros relatos 1 exemplar
Зібрання творів 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
- Outros nomes
- Grile, Dod
Bierce, Bitter
Herman, William
Bowers, Mrs. J. Milton - Data de nascimento
- 1842-06-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1914
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Last seen in Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causa da morte
- unknown
- Locais de residência
- San Francisco, California, USA
Warsaw, Indiana, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Chihuahua, Mexico - Educação
- self-educated
- Ocupações
- journalist
poet
essayist
critic
editor
columnist (mostrar todos 12)
reporter
soldier
topographical engineer
drummer boy
mining foreman
printer's apprentice - Organizações
- 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army
San Francisco Examiner
Hearst Newspapers
Bohemian Club
Army-Navy Club
Northern Indianan (mostrar todos 11)
U.S. Sub-Treasury
San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser
U.S. Mint
New York American
Wasp
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Disappeared in Mexico in 1914
Membros
Discussions
The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter by Richard Voss – LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1967 em George Macy devotees (Agosto 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Death of Halpin Frayser" by Ambrose Bierce em The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "Beyond the Wall" by Ambrose Bierce em The Weird Tradition (Julho 2015)
I just bought The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce em Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (Janeiro 2012)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 486
- Also by
- 280
- Membros
- 13,286
- Popularidade
- #1,756
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 281
- ISBN
- 1,146
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 81
But there is still something inexplicably natural and essential in his prose that I love. He created scenes and atmospheres that were both natural and unnatural, or perhaps in a way proto-natural, evoking ancient places and forces that even Manifest Destiny shouldn't disturb. Bierce had the ability to channel the superstitious cowboy that must exist in all of us, expressing frontier wisdom through ghost stories. "Don't go near that gulch! Lemme tell you about some buckaroos who went near that gulch, they were eaten by a ghost."… (mais)