Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "The Boarded Window", "Killed at Resaca", and "Chickamauga".
Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "The Boarded Window", "Killed at Resaca", and "Chickamauga".
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?) was one of the leading men of letters in nineteenth-century America and a Civil War veteran. He served as a first lieutenant in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. After the war he became a regular columnist at The San Francisco Examiner and one of the most influential journalists on the West Coast. In addition to his journalistic work, he wrote piercingly about the ghastly things he had seen in the war and was a pioneer of the psychological horror story. At the age of seventy-one Bierce disappeared while joining Pancho Villa's army as an observer of the Mexican Revolution, and, in spite of multiple investigations, his ultimate fate remains unknown.
Inhaltsangabe
1 What I Saw of Shiloh 2 Four Days in Dixie 3 A Horseman in the Sky 4 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 5 Chickamauga 6 A Son of the Gods 7 One of the Missing 8 Killed at Resaca 9 The Affair at Coulter's Notch 10 The Coup de Grâce 11 Parker Adderson, Philosopher 12 An Affair of Outposts 13 The Story of a Conscience 14 One Kind of Officer 15 George Thurston 16 The Mocking-bird
1 What I Saw of Shiloh 2 Four Days in Dixie 3 A Horseman in the Sky 4 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 5 Chickamauga 6 A Son of the Gods 7 One of the Missing 8 Killed at Resaca 9 The Affair at Coulter's Notch 10 The Coup de Grâce 11 Parker Adderson, Philosopher 12 An Affair of Outposts 13 The Story of a Conscience 14 One Kind of Officer 15 George Thurston 16 The Mocking-bird
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