Ambrose Bierce
- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
- Амброз Бирс
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- Bierce, Ambrose
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1842-06-24
- Place of birth
- Meigs County
- Date of death
- 1914
- Place of death
- Chihuahua
Wikipedia
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.
A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and for his poetry.
In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared and was never seen again.
Annotation
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. Bierce's date of death is unconfirmed. In December 1913, Bierce traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico, to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared, and was rumored to be traveling with rebel troops. He was never seen again.
Last modified: 2020-08-11 (revision #20255)
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
The Devil’s Dictionary | eBook | ? | 2021-03-16 |
Black Beetles in Amber | Hardcover | ? | 1892 |
Fantastic Fables | eBook | ? | 1995-12-01 |
Poetry (Ambrose Bierce) | eBook | ? | 2022-09-26 |
In the Midst of Life | eBook | ? | 2022-10-14 |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | eBook | ? | 1995-12-01 |
Can Such Things Be? | eBook | ? | 2023-02-13 |
Shapes of Clay | Hardcover | ? | 1903 |
Das Spukhaus: Gespenstergeschichten (Ambrose Bierce) | Paperback | 3-518-36865-6 | 1980 |
Монах и дочь палача | Hardcover | 978-5-17-144745-8 | 2022-03 |
Relationships
- Ambrose Bierce is the subject of Der alte Gringo
- Ambrose Bierce is the subject of Gringo viejo
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Elixir vitae
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Novum organum
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Geotheos
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In Defense
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Invocation
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Socialists
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Visions of Sin
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Genius
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Anarchist
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Arma virumque
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Demand
- Ambrose Bierce wrote T. A. H.
- Ambrose Bierce wrote My Monument
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Mad
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Wooer
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In Cuba
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Arthur McEwen
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Contemplation
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Golden Age
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Naval Method
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Learner
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To Bridget
- Ambrose Bierce wrote After Tennyson
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Business
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Possibility
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To a Censor
- Ambrose Bierce wrote J. F. B.
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Laus Lucis
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Technology
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To Oscar Wilde
- Ambrose Bierce wrote For Expulsion
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Judex Jocosus
- Ambrose Bierce wrote “Graft”
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Statesmen
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Corrected News
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Omnes Vanitas
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Reminded
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Another Way
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To Maude
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Stanley
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Absurdum
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Saith the Czar
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A False Alarm
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Constancy
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The New Enoch
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Disavowal
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Average
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Pun
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Black-List
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Psoriad
- Ambrose Bierce wrote L'audace
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Aesthetes
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Restored
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Sires and Sons
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Shows
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Poet’s Hope
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Rogues
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Beecher
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Not Guilty
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Presentiment
- Ambrose Bierce wrote For Merit
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Humorist
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Montefiore
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Discretion
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Election Day
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Militiaman
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Welcome
- Ambrose Bierce wrote For Tat
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In High Life
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Whipper-in
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Francine
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Example
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In contumaciam
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Augury
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Bereavement
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Pickbrain
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Detected
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Bimetalism
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Methods
- Ambrose Bierce wrote France
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Guest
- Ambrose Bierce wrote One Morning
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Yearly Lie
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Apologue
- Ambrose Bierce wrote One President
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Bride
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Wet Season
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Again
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Social Call
- Ambrose Bierce wrote My Day of Life
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To My Bird
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Hospitality
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Magnanimity
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Understated
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Financial News
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Aspiration
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Foresight
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Elihu Root
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Oneiromancy
- Ambrose Bierce wrote July Fourth
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Paradox
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Re-Edified
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Bulletin
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Builder
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Unexpounded
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Types
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Cooperation
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Humility
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Exoneration
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Pious Rite
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Conversely
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Psychographs
- Ambrose Bierce wrote For Wounds
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Back to Nature
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Rudolph Block
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Boycott
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To Her
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Rebuke
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Long Fear
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Sepulture
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Key Note
- Ambrose Bierce wrote One Judge
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Obituarian
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Statesmen
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Fool
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Azrael
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Yorick
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Surprised
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Art Critic
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Dennis Kearney
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An “Exhibit”
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To an Aspirant
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Actor
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Famine’s Realm
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Mackaiad
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To My Liars
- Ambrose Bierce wrote On the Scales
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Codex Honoris
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To W. H. L. B.
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Emancipation
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Johndonkey
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Hell
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Legatee
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Mendax
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Retort
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Thersites
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Troubadour
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Unarmed
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Soaring Toad
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Mr. Sheets
- Ambrose Bierce wrote My Lord Poet
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A War Cry
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In Dissuasion
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Prediction
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Another Plan
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Tinker Dick
- Ambrose Bierce wrote With a Book
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Competitor
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Generosity
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Judge Not
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To Dog
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To a Grabber
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Sunset Gun
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The New Dennis
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Incivism
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Fig Leaf
- Ambrose Bierce wrote For Mayor
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In Pickle
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Crocodile
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Uncoloneled
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Gates Ajar
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To a Bully
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Land Fight
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Compliance
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Arboriculture
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Voluptuary
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Ad Cattonum
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Nimrod
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Ultra crepidam
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Indicted
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Playwright
- Ambrose Bierce wrote California
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To Either
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Disappointment
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Arbor Day
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Piute
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Critic
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Fleet Strother
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Reciprocity
- Ambrose Bierce wrote James L. Flood
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Growler
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Ad Moodium
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Spade
- Ambrose Bierce wrote To a Stray Dog
- Ambrose Bierce wrote In His Hand
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Demagogue
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Ignis fatuus
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Idler
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Dead King
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Patter Song
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Caller
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Privation
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Juventus mundi
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Guides
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Apparition
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Emigrant
- Ambrose Bierce wrote At Anchor
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Judge Rutledge
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Two Cavees
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Slickens
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Water-Pirate
- Ambrose Bierce wrote C. P. Berry
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Reparation
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Kit
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Disjunctus
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Wasted Life
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Basilica
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Rosalie
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Science
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Quintessence
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Resurgam
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Laughorisms
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Epigrams
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Stephen Dorsey
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Applicant
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Holy Terror
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Moxon’s Master
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Tough Tussle
- Ambrose Bierce wrote One of Twins
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Jug of Syrup
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Baby Tramp
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Arrest
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Kings
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Call to Quit
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Pavior
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Two Poets
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Causeway
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two in Trouble
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The All Dog
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Physicians Two
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The No Case
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Optimist
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Two Footpads
- Ambrose Bierce wrote At the Pole
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Taken Hand
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Needful War
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Smiling Idol
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Wasted Sweets
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Six and One
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Three Recruits
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Antidote
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Weary Echo
- Ambrose Bierce wrote A Talisman
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Massacre
- Ambrose Bierce wrote An Ærophobe
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Life Saver
- Ambrose Bierce wrote The Debaters
- Ambrose Bierce wrote Traumgefilde
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- 2023-09-26