Ambrose Bierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 9155127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ambrose Bierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ambrose |
| FAMILY NAME | Bierce |
| SIGNATURE | BIERCE A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Road to Science Fiction
Now in Paperback! Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in Gulliver's Travels to Mary Shelley's horrifying description of a scientist who has gone too far in Frankenstein from Edgar Allan Poe's…
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
"Poems of Ambrose Bierce" published on by University of Nebraska Press.
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
This volume contains a generous selection of Bierce's poems: they are alternately ironic, melancholy, bitter, and wickedly amusing. There are also fifteen essays and letters on poetry, poets, and such topics as "Wit and Humor" and "The Passing of Satire." Certainly there have been few authors more intimately familiar with wit and satire than the brilliant, iconoclastic Bierce. As editor M. E. Grenander makes plain in her introduction, both are ab…
At a "National Encampment"
"At a "National Encampment"" published on by null.
The Crime of 1903
"The Crime of 1903" published on by null.
Saith the Czar
"Saith the Czar" published on by null.
The devil and all his words
Ambrose Bierce (1842–?1914) took part in the U.S. Civil War, dug for gold in the Black Hills of Dakota, worked for William Randolph Hearst on the San Francisco Examiner , and from time to time simply vanished. Finally, in 1913 he went south of the border into revolutionary Mexico and disappeared without trace. No one has ever learned what happened to him, but before he vanished he had left behind an enduring legacy: The Devil's Dictionary
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The devil and all his words
Ambrose Bierce (1842–?1914) took part in the U.S. Civil War, dug for gold in the Black Hills of Dakota, worked for William Randolph Hearst on the San Francisco Examiner , and from time to time simply vanished. Finally, in 1913 he went south of the border into revolutionary Mexico and disappeared without trace. No one has ever learned what happened to him, but before he vanished he had left behind an enduring legacy: The Devil's Dictionary
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
"Poems of Ambrose Bierce" published on by University of Nebraska Press.
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
This volume contains a generous selection of Bierce's poems: they are alternately ironic, melancholy, bitter, and wickedly amusing. There are also fifteen essays and letters on poetry, poets, and such topics as "Wit and Humor" and "The Passing of Satire." Certainly there have been few authors more intimately familiar with wit and satire than the brilliant, iconoclastic Bierce. As editor M. E. Grenander makes plain in her introduction, both are ab…
At a "National Encampment"
"At a "National Encampment"" published on by null.
The Crime of 1903
"The Crime of 1903" published on by null.
Saith the Czar
"Saith the Czar" published on by null.
The Road to Science Fiction
Now in Paperback! Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on the moon; from Jonathan Swift's hilarious satire on scientists in Gulliver's Travels to Mary Shelley's horrifying description of a scientist who has gone too far in Frankenstein from Edgar Allan Poe's…
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