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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Author	: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher	: Read Books Ltd
Release Date	: 2016-03-31
ISBN 10	: 9781473360358
Pages	: 118 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (63 users)

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Download or read book The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece, written almost as a modern folktale. Follow the tale of the monk Ambrosius as he meets the shunned Benedicta, the local hangman's daughter. Ambrosius becomes embroiled in a dark and twisted tale of love, assault and the sins of the past.

Odoevsky's four pathways into modern fiction

Author	: Neil Cornwell
Publisher	: Manchester University Press
Release Date	: 2013-07-19
ISBN 10	: 9781847797698
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (976 users)

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Download or read book Odoevsky's four pathways into modern fiction written by Neil Cornwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes four stories by the Russian Romantic author Vladimir Odoevsky to illustrate ‘pathways’, developed further by subsequent writers, into modern fiction. Featured here are: the artistic (musical story), the rise of science fiction, psychic aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel. The four chapters also examine the development of the featured categories by a wide range of subsequent writers in fiction ranging from the Romantic period up to the present century. The study works backwards from Odoevsky’s stories, noting respective previous examples or traditions, before proceeding to follow the ‘pathways’ observed into later Russian, English and comparative fiction. Whilst appealing to specialists in Russian and comparative literature, these chapters are accessible to a student readership taking courses involving the main areas featured – including the arts in literature, fictional artistic biography, interplanetary flight and civilisations, detective fiction, and novelistic confession.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature

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Publisher	: CUP Archive
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 302 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Author	: Adolphe Danziger de Castro, Ambrose Bierce
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1911
ISBN 10	:
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( users)

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The American Catalogue

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Release Date	: 1896
ISBN 10	: NYPL:33433000086706
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Poetry 19th Century 2

Author	: John Hollander
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-04-01
ISBN 10	: 9781135922818
Pages	: 1054 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (228 users)

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Download or read book American Poetry 19th Century 2 written by John Hollander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Prescription for Adversity

Author	: Lawrence I. Berkove
Publisher	: Ohio State University Press
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: 0814208940
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book A Prescription for Adversity written by Lawrence I. Berkove and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prescription for Adversity makes the revolutionary case that Ambrose Bierce, far from being a bitter misanthrope, was instead both a compassionate and moral author. Berkove, focusing on Bierce's short fiction, establishes the necessity of recognizing the pattern of his intellectual and literary development over the course of his career. The author shows that Bierce, probably the American author with the most extensive experience of the Civil War, turned to classical Stoicism and English and French Enlightenment literature in his postwar search for meaning. Bierce's fiction arose from his ultimately unsatisfying encounters with the philosophies those sources offered, but the moral commitment as well as the literary techniques of heir authors, particularly Jonathan Swift, inspired him. Dating Bierce's fiction, and introducing uncollected journalism, correspondence, and important new literary history and biographical information, Berkove brings new insights to a number of stories, including "A Son of the Gods" and "A Horseman in the Sky," but especially "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and presents compelling readings of the Parenticide Club tales and "Moxon's Master." A Prescription for Adversity substantiates how Bierce at his best is one of the few American authors who rises to the level of Mark Twain, and the only one who touches Jonathan Swift. A work of both biography and literary criticism, this book rescues Ambrose Bierce and his literature from the neglect to which it has been assigned by "ill-founded, obtuse and unproductive approaches based on skewed notions of his personality and forced or facile readings of individual stories."

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)

Author	: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher	: Library of America
Release Date	: 2011-09-01
ISBN 10	: 9781598531831
Pages	: 864 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (318 users)

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Ambrose Bierce

Author	: Roy Morris
Publisher	: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 9780195126280
Pages	: 319 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (262 users)

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce written by Roy Morris and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and career of the acerbic author, from his youth, through his experiences during the Civil War, to his 1913 disappearance in revolution-torn Mexico

An Ambrose Bierce Companion

Author	: Robert L. Gale
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 0313311307
Pages	: 362 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book An Ambrose Bierce Companion written by Robert L. Gale and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambrose Bierce was born in 1842 and mysteriously disappeared in 1914. During his lifetime, he was a controversial and prolific writer, and there is a growing interest in his work. His experiences as a Union soldier during the Civil War provided him with material for some of the best American war literature ever written. In addition to his war stories, he wrote tales of the supernatural and a vast body of newspaper columns, which are among the most venomous and daring ever published. This reference is a guide to his life and writings. Along with a chronology, the volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on Bierce's major works and characters and on historical persons and writers who figured prominently in his life. Many of the entries supply bibliographic information, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

A Sole Survivor

Author	: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher	: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 157233018X
Pages	: 392 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book A Sole Survivor written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects all the autobiographical writings of author and satirist Ambrose Bierce, including a series of eleven essays about his experiences in the Civil War.

A Much Misunderstood Man

Author	: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher	: Ohio State University Press
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 081420919X
Pages	: 296 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book A Much Misunderstood Man written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The binding thread throughout this edited collection of Ambrose Bierce's letters is the argument that Bierce has too often vilified as a cynical misanthrope. Joshi and Schultz believe that Bierce's human side has been ignored by scholars, and they work here to rectify this oversight. The importance of this collection is underscored by the fact that no collection of Bierce's letters has been published since 1922. This selection represents a sampling of nearly one-half million words of Bierce's correspondence, which Joshi and Schultz are the first to gather and transcribe." "The letters reveal many sides of Bierce that he deliberately concealed in his literary work: the caring father who keenly felt the deaths of his two sons and took constant interest in the welfare of his only daughter; the literary giant of San Francisco who gathered around him a substantial cadre of disciples whose work he encouraged and meticulously criticized; the vigorous castigator of chicanery, hypocrisy, and injustice wherever he saw it; and the author of coyly flirtatious letters to a number of female correspondents. For the first time, a well-rounded picture of Bierce the man and writer emerges in his own words. The volume ends chillingly with Bierce's last surviving letter, written from Chihuahua, Mexico, on December 26, 1913, which concludes: "As for me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination." Bierce was never heard from again." "The letters have been scrupulously edited from manuscript sources and exhaustively annotated to elucidate obscure historical, literary, and other references."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Catalogue of English Prose Fiction, Including Juveniles and Translations

Author	: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1894
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:HN57K7
Pages	: 276 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (5 users)

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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Author	: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher	: University of Georgia Press
Release Date	: 2010-09-15
ISBN 10	: 9780820326344
Pages	: 440 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (263 users)

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Download or read book The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included. Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1911
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:32044049966609
Pages	: 684 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (32 users)

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The Annual American Catalogue

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1893
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015071097243
Pages	: 398 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book The Annual American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Publishers Weekly

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1893
ISBN 10	: UCAL:B4171017
Pages	: 928 pages
Rating	: 4.B/5 (71 users)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: