Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club

"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, journalist, critic, poet, and Civil War veteran, best known for The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He dominated the horror genre as the preeminent innovator of supernatural storytelling in the period between the death of Edgar Allan Poe and the rise of H.P. Lovecraft. Bierce’s death was...

Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Ambrose Bierce Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

In "Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography," Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as a topographical engineer, making maps of likely battlefields. Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), a terrifying experience that became a source...

Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (73 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Ambrose Bierce The devil's dictionary

"A word book, straight up, with a twist The Devil's Dictionary is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, gained from seeing the world early and cynically as it really was, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America's first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against hypocrisy is perfectly complemented by Ralph Steadman's equally incisive pen and ink illustrations. Adore, v.t. To venerate expectantly. Bride,...

Engels | 192 pagina's (3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

E-book

Ambrose Bierce The devil's dictionary

the complete edition

Woordenboek uit de negentiende eeuw met alfabetisch gerangschikte, bijtend satirische en maatschappijkritische definities, gemaakt door de destijds beroemde Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913).

Non-fictie

Engels | 344 pagina's | Alma Classics, Richmond, Surrey | 2019

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Ambrose Bierce The devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs

Engels | 880 pagina's | Library of America, New York, N.Y. | 2011

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Ambrose Bierce The unabridged devil's dictionary

Engels | 404 pagina's | University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA | 1999

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Ambrose Bierce A sole survivor

bits of autobiography

Engels | 356 pagina's | The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN | 1998

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Ambrose Bierce Poems of Ambrose Bierce

Engels | 202 pagina's | University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [etc.] | 1995

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Ambrose Bierce The collected writings of Ambrose Bierce

Engels | 810 pagina's | Pan, London | 1988

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Ambrose Bierce The enlarged devil's dictionary

Engels | 323 pagina's | Penguin, Harmondsworth | 1983

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Ambrose Bierce The sardonic humor of Ambrose Bierce

Engels | 232 pagina's | Dover publications, New York | 1963

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Ambrose Bierce In the midst of life and other tales

with an afterword by Marcus Cunliffe

Engels | 254 pagina's | New American Library, New York | 1961

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Ambrose Bierce The collected writings of Ambrose Bierce

Engels | 2 pagina's | The Citadel press, New York | 1946

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Ambrose Bierce In the midst of life

tales of soldiers and civilians

Engels | 403 pagina's | Modern Library, New York | 1927

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