Ambrose Bierce

Civil War Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781633849952
• Artikelnr.: 43121438

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