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Poems of Ambrose Bierce

Poems of Ambrose Bierce( )
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Editor: Grenander, M. E.
Introduction by: Grenander, M. E.
ISBN:978-0-8032-6133-4
Publication Date:Oct 1996
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:Bison Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose Devil's Dictionary remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the English-speaking world, he was also a master of the short story form. From the late 1860s through the early 1900s, he worked as a journalist, gaining wide renown in the 1890s and 1900s as a satirical columnist for William Randolph Hearst's chain of newspapers. In 1913 Bierce traveled to...
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Book Details
Pages:202
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.424 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:0.625 Pounds
Author Biography
Bierce, Ambrose (Author)
Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches.

Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution.

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