Ambrose Bierce

Civil War Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Newspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (18421914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has produced. Dubbed "Bitter Bierce" for his vitriolic wit and biting satire, his fame rests largely on a celebrated compilation of barbed epigrams, The Devil's Dictionary, and a book of short stories (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, 1891). Most of the 16 selections in this volume have been taken from the latter collection.
The stories in this edition include: "What I Saw at Shiloh," "A Son of the Gods," "Four Days in Dixie," "One of the Missing," "A Horseman in the Sky," "The Coup de Grace," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Story of Conscience," "One Kind of Officer," "Chickamauga," and five more.
Bierce's stories employ a buildup of suggestive realistic detail to produce grim and vivid tales often disturbing in their mood of fatalism and impending calamity. Hauntingly suggestive, they offer excellent examples of the author's dark pessimism and storytelling power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486111568
• Artikelnr.: 40065163

Autorenporträt

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) journalist, satirist, and Civil War veteran, began his satirical redefinitions of ordinary words in a weekly newspaper in 1881, and saw them first collected in The Cynic's Word Book (1906). It was with the 1911 republication as The Devil's Dictionary that he struck comedy gold for the ages with his ironic riffs on American culture. Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States.

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

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