Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)
In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) / Can Such Things Be? / The Devil's Dictionary / Bits of Autobiography / selected stories
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Chickamauga, is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together The Death of Halpin Frayser, The Damned Thing, The Moonlit Road, an…
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Weitere Autoren: Joshi, S. T. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-183-1
- EAN: 9781598531831
- Produktnummer: 17567362
- Verlag: Library of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 864 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 981 KB
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S. T. Joshi, editor, is the author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1997) and many other books. He is also the editor of The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce (2000) and co-editor with David E. Schultz of Ambrose Bierce: A Sole Survivor-Bits of Autobiography (1998), Ambrose Bierce: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources (1999), and The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (2002).
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