Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Name: Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
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ISBN: 9780803260719

ISBN-10: 0803260717

ISBN-13: 9780803260719

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ambrose Bierce, Ernest J. Hopkins, Cathy N. Davidson

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Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classicAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridgewill want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English