Bierce: 383 books

In Tales of Soldiers and Civilians” (1892) American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce describes unusual incidents and scenes in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Employing a mastery of the English language that is both economical and florid, the...

The US Civil War (1861–1865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature. Through seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo you will be able to understand...

¡Este libro contiene un indice interactivo que harán la lectura un verdadero placer! Cuatro cuentos de Ambroce Bierce: -Un diagnóstico de muerte -El dedo medio del pie derecho -La Maldita Cosa -El extraño

Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits--a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, religion, literature and the arts. In this...

Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...

A town that had a man for breakfast every morning. That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't...

This volume contains three complete works.  The focus is dictionaries of slang, or common usage of the English language.   The first work included in this volume is “The Slang Dictionary,” by John Camden Hotten.  The work shows the state of slang in England in 1913....

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...

THE BEST SHORT STORY -  1 AUTHORS O. Henry Ambrose Bierce Edgar Allan Poe Jack London Guy de Maupassant H.H. Munro Kate Chopin Mark Twain Anton Chekhov W. W. Jacobs EDITOR Ahmet Ünal ÇAM

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows” Brontë,...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

This selection of horror stories has been published for Halloween 2014. It includes the very first publication of "Night Should Be Black," by classic WEIRD TALES author Everil Worrell -- an unpublished story found among her papers after her death. Good stuff! Included are: "The Eyes," by Edith Wharton...