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Ambrose Bierce

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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

15,423 words, approx. 52 pages

THE WAYS OF GHOSTS My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is such that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of explanation as to how they came into my possession. ... Read more

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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

8,301 words, approx. 28 pages

Biography EssayThe late Carey McWilliams, himself an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce, that aloof and indepen... Read more

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

489 words, approx. 2 pages

The American writer Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-ca. 1914) expressed the cynicism of the post-Civil War era and shaped both the materials and the methods of writers who later voiced the disillusionmen... Read more

Ambrose Bierce

3,070 words, approx. 11 pages

Ambrose Bierce's literary reputation is based primarily on his short stories about the Civil War and the supernaturala body of work that makes up a relatively small part of his total output. Often com... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

6,659 words, approx. 23 pages

The achievement of Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce as a humorist is underrated, largely because attention has focused on his grim tales of war and the macabre. To consider the great majority of works in his c... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

6,733 words, approx. 23 pages

The late Carey McWilliams, an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce , that aloof and independent iconoclast who w... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

4,515 words, approx. 16 pages

Bitter Bierce, the caustic columnist. Thus was Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce best known, and thus is he best remembered. Yet in his lifetime he embraced several careers: soldier, expatriate literatur, gold ... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

3,865 words, approx. 13 pages

Within the last two decades Ambrose Bierce has begun to attract the scholarly attention his work deserves. For example, Brigid Brophy remarked in 1973 that those who were ignorant of literary history ... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

3,618 words, approx. 13 pages

In the more than seventy years since his mysterious disappearance in Mexico, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce has been known almost as much for his colorful life as for his experimental fiction. Well over six ... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

5,806 words, approx. 20 pages

Ambrose Bierce is far more than a regional, or western, writer. He has come to be recognized as an outstanding exemplar of literary impressionism, a counterweight to the emphasis on realism and natura... Read more

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