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23 Ιαν 1996 · A lively and compelling portrait of one of the most acerbic and distinctive voices in American literature, Ambrose Alone in Bad Company is a clear-eyed but sympathetic account of a complex individual at odds with his country, his family, his times, and himself.
29 Απρ 1999 · This biography accounts for both the influential art that Ambrose Bierce made from a harsh and unforgiving vision, and the high price he had to pay for it in loneliness, rancour, and spiritual isolation.
30 Ιαν 2020 · Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?, Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, Journalists -- United States -- Biography Publisher New York : Crown Publishers Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 693.1M
Ambrose Bierce and Sidney Lanier were the only two significant writers to serve in the Civil War who were able to live and tell us about it. Coincidentally, they both married women named Mary Day; one was called May-day, while the other was called Mollie.
Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company. Roy Morris. Crown Publishers, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 306 pages. "When 71-year-old Ambrose Bierce disappeared into revolution-torn...
In this insightful, critically acclaimed biography, the first comprehensive study for almost fifty years, Roy Morris, Jr., accounts for both the influential art that Ambrose Bierce made from a harsh and unforgiving vision - and the high price he had to pay for it in loneliness, rancour, and spiritual isolation.
A quartet of Irish shopkeepers turned stockbrokers—James Flood, John Mackay, James Fair, and William O'Brien—almost overnight gained control of the Comstock Lode through canny investments and stock manipulation, becoming in the process the city's first and greatest “silver kings.”.
