Bierce: 383 books

"Um habitante de Carcosa" foi publicado, pela primeira vez, em 25 de dezembro de 1886, no número de Natal do San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) foi um autor, editor e jornalista norte-americano que ficou conhecido pelos seus contos com uma linguagem...

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...

Un dizionario originale e unico nel suo genere, caustico, cinico, infernale. Nulla è risparmiato dagli strali ironici e dissacratori di Ambrose Bierce, uno fra gli autori più celebrati e controversi della letteratura americana.

e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection of the greatest horror classics, the darkest mysteries and supernatural tales: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom James Malcolm Rymer &...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: 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...

Best known as a master of searing satire, American author Ambrose Bierce was also an accomplished short story writer. The engrossing tale "The Damned Thing" presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable -- and untameable -- essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different...

In this collection of essays, published in 1909, Bierce offers his incisive and sardonic commentary on many social issues of the day. He proffers arguments that are still in use by today’s pundits, making his essays such as “The Game of Politics,” “The Death Penalty,” and “The Right to Work,” seem surprisingly modern. 

Ambrose Bierce master combination of black humor, sarcasm and cynicism makes the trick and your inner parricidal tendencies will make you laugh and laugh.

In Ambrose Bierce’s The Eyes of the Panther, a beautiful young woman rejects her suitor’s marriage proposal. Explaining that she is insane, she describes the strange circumstances of her birth, involving the mysterious appearance of a panther at her mother’s window, an event which...

Gatti generosi, pronti a offrire subito il proprio affetto, gatti perfidi, capaci di architettare terribili trappole, gatti vittime dell’egoismo umano, gatti che ridonano ai loro padroni il perduto equilibrio spirituale; e poi gatti pasticcioni, gatti filosofi, gatti spioni, gatti rubacuori, gatti...

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...

A collection of essays in which Bierce talks about modern civilization and all its faults, including the death penalty, emancipated women, immortality, civilisation and more.

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...