Nathaniel Rich
All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco provided [... more]
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The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce, Volume I: A ...
 Author: Ambrose Bierce Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4 EAN: 9781572335363 Edition: Com ISBN: 157233536X Number Of Pages: 456 Publication Date: 2006-09-15 [... more]
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce: Bibliography and Biographical Data
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce: Bibliography and Biographical Data [... more]
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The Devil's Topographer: Ambrose Bierce and the American ...
H. L. Mencken wrote in 1927 that Ambrose Bierce was the first writer of fiction ever to treat war realistically. This realism was based in large part on his experiences as a Union soldier in the Civil War. First as an infantryman and then a cartographer, [... more]
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Poems of Ambrose Bierce
divAmbrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whoseiDevil's Dictionary/iremains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the English-speaking world, he was also a master of the short story [... more]
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The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce, Volume Iii: Can ...
The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce, Volume Iii: Can Such Things Be? [... more]
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Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose ...
An essential reference: ESSENTIAL BIERCE: SELECTION OF THE WRITINGS OF AMBROSE BIERCE comes from an American critic, poet and editor who was admired for his role as a literary despot of the West Coast. His DEVIL'S DICTIONARY is excerpted here, but more [... more]
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
I suppose this must be death: Ambrose Bierce's most famous story is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and many of his stories follow that same kind of pattern: an event is related with some surprising or revelatory twist at the end. The stories of the [... more]
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Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings
Second Bierce mystery not up to the quality of the first: I admire Ambrose Bierce's work above all other 19th century writers, with the exception of O. Henry. I enjoy visiting San Francisco. So when I saw that Oakley Hall had written a sequel to Ambrose [... more]
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Just not my type: To be as fair as possible, my bias in ghost or horror stories runs toward New England and old England. I just don't find the West ... scary. In addition, Bierce's style is very no-nonsense, straight-forward, factual reporting (which he [... more]
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Poems of Ambrose Bierce
Author: Ambrose Bierce Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780803261334 ISBN: 0803261330 Number Of Pages: 202 Publication Date: 1995-12-28 [... more]
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Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company
Bierce a lesser figure?: I am perfectly aware that to say that Ambrose Bierce was the most original, provocative and fascinating of all American writers (not to say the most brilliant of all) is like preaching in the desert. It is probably going to cost [... more]
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