Bierce Ambrose: 382 books

The Chouans [Honoré de Balzac] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] One of Ours [Willa Cather] Ailsa Paige [Robert William Chambers] The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers] The Duel [Joseph Conrad] The Tale [Joseph Conrad] The Deerslayer [James Fenimore Cooper] The Last of the Mohicans...

On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman, but Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous sympathy with her, and in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time...

Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and many-faceted genius. Poet, critic, satirist, fun-maker, incomparable writer of fables and masterly...

"Eine Menge origineller Ideen, großteils ansprechend bis fantastisch umgesetzt. So sollten Anthologien sein." (standard.at) Science Fiction und Phantastik in erlesener Auswahl: Tiefgründig, hintersinnig und nachdenklich, aber auch abenteuerlich und böse sind die erzählerischen Streifzüge,...

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: El Diccionario del Diablo es una recopilación satírica de 998 definiciones corrosivas escrito de 1881 a 1906 por Ambrose Bierce. Inicialmente fue publicado en fragmentos en diversos periódicos durante más de veinte años. Al finalizar, en 1911, se recopiló...

CONTENIDO: Cuentos de horror [Ambrose Bierce] El monte de las ánimas [Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer] El Horror de Dunwich [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] La Llamada de Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] El Horla [Guy de Maupassant] Relatos escogidos II [Edgar Allan Poe] Berenice [Edgar Allan Poe] Relatos...

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Ambrose Bierce: The Collected Works -Lewis Carroll: The Complete Works -Emily Dickinson: Complete Poems Emily Dickinson -O. Henry: Complete Stories -Homer: The complete Epic Poems -Henry James: Complete Works -Guy de Maupassant:...

Die Sammlung enthält 14 Geschichten von Ambrose Bierce, darunter Klassiker wie das 'Spukhaus' und 'Die Schwierigkeit eine Weide zu überqueren'. Es wurden aber auch Texte aufgenommen, die zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geraten sind, wie etwa die obskure Erzählung 'Der Weinstock' oder die in ihrer Zuspitzung...

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-like definitions.

Un'Arcadia popolata di animali, di figure mitiche e immortali, contadini, viandanti, volpi, leoni, serpenti... Il mondo incantato delle favole. E questo mondo è letteralmente ribaltato, avvelenato, dal cinismo, dal sarcasmo e dal moralismo spietato di Ambrose Bierce. La vittima diventa carnefice,...

Una ragazza bellissima, avvolta in una veste rossa come il fuoco, scalza in un campo di fiori. Sola di fronte a un uomo appena impiccato. È questa la visione che sconvolge la mente del giovane frate Ambrosius, inviato dai suoi superiori in una remota e pericolosa località delle alpi austriache....

Conosciuto principalmente per le sue storie dell’orrore e di fantasmi e per lo sguardo sardonico sulla natura umana – non a caso venne soprannominato “Bitter”, amaro –, Ambrose Bierce fu un prolifico scrittore di racconti, tra cui spiccano quelli fantastici a tema animale. Questo volume...

Popular novel, first published in 1911. According to Wikipedia: "Danziger translated the story "Der Mönch von Berchtesgaden" (The Monk of Berchtesgaden), by German author Richard Voß, published in a German monthly magazine in 1891, into English and contracted Ambrose Bierce, who supported Danziger's...

"The Damned Thing" is a short story written by Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893. This story focuses on how the human race takes their views of nature for granted, and how there may be things in the natural world that the human eye cannot see or the human ear cannot hear.