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30 Ιαν 2020 · Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Software. An illustration of two photographs. Images. An illustration of a heart shape ... Ambrose Bierce : alone in bad company by Morris, Roy. Publication date 1995 Topics
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.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 [2] – c. 1914[3]) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. [4] His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek ...
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.
For once in his career given a target worthy of his dark disdain, Bierce spent months savagely lambasting “the swine of the century” in articles that have since entered journalistic legend. Yet if Huntington was an easy target, Bierce also took on less popular causes.
11 Αυγ 2001 · Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company is highly recommended, either as a personal view of the effects of the Civil War on a sensitive young writer, or as the examination of the equally fascinating world of the so-called Gilded Age and its reigning b?te noire, Ambrose Bierce.
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.
