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1. Ambrose Bierce In RealAudio
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- by Ambrose Bierce.
- A discussion of the life and writing of Bierce.
- Ambrose Bierce was a poet, a journalist and essayist, and a writer of short stories. Best known as the author of The Devil's Dictionary and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Bierce went to Mexico at the age of seventy-one to fight with Pancho Villa and disappeared.
- Listen to Richard Compson Sater read the famous Ambrose Bierce short story, .
- Listen to a discussion of Bierce's life and works with Don Swaim and Jack Matthews. ...
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2. Ambrose Bierce
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- Ambrose Bierce .
- One of the most intriguing mysteries in American literary history is the baffling disappearance of Ambrose Bierce in 1913. The author of the notorious Devil's Dictionary (1906, 1911 ) and a number of Civil War stories, the most famous of which is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890, 1891 ), Bierce dropped out of sight in Mexico, got involved in the Mexican Revolution, and was killed as a result. At least, that's the conventional wisdom, although some of his biographers disagree with that scenario, one even going so far as to speculate that Bierce may have continued northwest to the Grand Canyon and committed suicide there (Morris 262).
- Bierce had arrived in San Antonio from New Orleans on October 27, 1913, where he was welcomed uncharacteristically, according to Carey McWilliams, by an autumn blizzard. ... The last several words of Bierce's description seem to echo Stephen Crane's reverent phrase, "the patriot shrine of Texas. " Not so reverent was Bierce's remark that the Alamo looked small enough to be covered with a hat (Morris 253). ...
- At Fort Sam Houston Bierce encountered some of his old military friends from earlier years in San Francisco and Washington. ... After all, as a Civil War veteran and a prominent California journalist and literary artist, Bierce had been acquainted with some of these men when they were stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco. ...
- More recently the celebrated Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes, has broached the subject of Bierce's apparent life-ending sojourn into Mexico in the novel The Old Gringo (1985); in 1989 it was adapted into a movie of the same name featuring Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda. Although Fuentes never specifically identifies "the old gringo" around whom the novel is centered, the details make clear that he had Ambrose Bierce in mind. ...
- If these biographical details are accurate, San Antonio was the last major American city that Ambrose Bierce visited before his death in Mexico. ...
3. Ambrose Bierce: Notes
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- Ambrose Bierce.
- Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio in 1842; the date of his death cannot be accurately recorded because his death was never witnessed. ...
- Bierce served in the Civil War (1861-65) on the Union side. After the war, Bierce worked for the Treasury Department during the Reconstruction in the defeated South. ...
- Bierce was genuinely horrified by what he saw during the fighting, and his cynicism was both the product of his outrage and a reflection of his awareness of the rather amibiguous role played by literature in relation to the world of events. ... These traits might have made an eccentric stylist with a coterie audience; instead, Bierce became a celebrated journalist both in American and in England. ...
- His fierce satire earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce": He was also an extraordinary manipulator of literary realism, expertly evoking real sensory memories to persuade the reader to accept portraits of events clearly beyond the normal range of human experience. ...
4. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
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- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
- Sites about these individual works by Ambrose Bierce .
- Criticism about Ambrose Bierce.
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- Biographical sites about Ambrose Bierce.
- The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society http://www. ...
- Other sites about Ambrose Bierce.
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- Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: American Naturalism - Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914?) http://www. ... edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/bierce. html This site lists books and articles written by or about Ambrose Bierce. ...
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5. Ambrose Bierce
- www.uncp.edu
- Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914?.
- Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce was one of thirteen children of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Bierce. At seventeen, Bierce attended the Kentucky Military Institute and two years later he served in the Union army of the Civil War. It was in the war that Bierce discovered death and destruction. Bierce transformed these Civil War experiences into powerful short stories such as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga. ...
- Bierce enlisted with the Ninth Indiana Infantry and fought in one of the first battles of the Civil War at Philippi, West Virginia. Only three months later did Bierce begin to battle with the effects of war as he carried one of his dying comrades across a battlefield. In 1862, the Civil War heightened, and Bierce was involved in several bloody battles at Shiloh, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and Kenesaw Mountain. As Bierce's participation in the war increased, so did his acts of bravery. ... After receiving a severe head wound in June of 1864, his brother, Albert, nurtured Bierce back to health. Despite his second command of a leave of absence, Bierce reenlisted with the Fourth Army Corps. ... Bierce's literary career began shortly after his dismissal (DLB 74: 22-23). ...
- It is likely that a predominant theme in several of Bierce's short stories is the physical and mental anguish associated with war. For instance, in "Chickamauga," Bierce describes a disillusioned child mounting a wounded soldier who "lacked a lower jaw" and "from the upper teeth to the throat was a great red gap fringed with hanging shreds of flesh and splinters of bone" (Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, 21). In addition, in Robert Wiggins' biography of Bierce, Wiggins reflects upon the physical horror of war in Bierce's "The Coup de Grace," where wild swine feed upon the bodies of dead and wounded soldiers (202). Finally, in his essay, "Ambrose Bierce: An Appraisal," Frederic Taber Cooper reflects Bierce's theme of mental anguish by referring to "A Horseman in the Sky," where a Union soldier bound to do his duty, pulls the trigger that kills his father, a Confederate soldier (36). ...
6. PAL: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
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- Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) .
- The letters of Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Phantoms of a blood-stained period: the complete Civil War writings of Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism, 1898-1901 by Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Critical Essays on Ambrose Bierce. ...
- The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. ...
- Portrait of Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Ambrose Bierce, the Devil's lexicographer. ...
- An Ambrose Bierce Companion. ...
- Bitter Bierce; a mystery of American letters. ...
- Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Ambrose Bierce: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources. ...
- A much misunderstood man: selected letters of Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Ambrose Bierce: A Biography. ...
- Footloose in Arcadia; a personal record of Jack London, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce. ...
- Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of De Forest and Bierce. ...
7. Ambrose Bierce
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- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) .
- "Bitter Bierce" - American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer, and novelist, an enigmatic figure, who disappeared in the Mexican Revolution. ... Bierce is best-known for his numerous short stories collected in TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS (1891), which show the influence of Edgar Allan Poe. However, Bierce himself was annoyed by comparisons. ... After Stephen Crane published his famous novel about the Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage, Bierce wrote: "I had thought there could be only two worse writers than Stephen Crane, namely, two Stephen Cranes. ...
- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, as the tenth of thirteen children of Marcus and Laura Bierce. ... Bierce's father had a large private library, and he spent much time with the books - his name Marcus Aurelius was given after the famous Roman emperor. Bierce grew up on a farm in northern Indiana. Later, in his parody of 'The Old Oaken Bucket', Bierce wrote about his early years: "With what anguish of mind I remember my childhood, / Recalled in the light of a knowledge since gained; / The malarious farm, the wet, fungus grown wildwood, / The chills then contracted that since have remained. " Bierce studied year in a high school. ...
- In 1861 Bierce enlisted in the army, rising eventually to the rank of lieutenant. ...
- At Kenesaw Mountain Bierce was wounded in the temple. ... After the war Bierce served briefly as a Treasury aide in Alabama. ... Bierce contributed to a number of periodicals, among others the Overland Monthly and the Californian. ...
- In 1871 Bierce married a wealthy miner's daughter, Mollie Day; they had two sons and a daughter. ... Tales of Soldiers and Civilians included Bierce's most celebrated tale, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'. ... But in the end Bierce reveals that this is merely a fantasy, occurring just before his death. ...
8. Ambrose Bierce Illustrated
- www.graphicclassics.com
- Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce.
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Bierce's famous Civil War story, superbly illustrated by British artist John Coulthart.
- The Devil's Dictionary - selections from Bierce's book of definitions, illustrated by Leslie Murray.
- With an introduction by Bierce scholar S. ...
- investigation into the mystery of Bierce's death in comics by.
- Plus Bierce's Fables, 29 short pieces told in comics and illustration by.
- Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce.
9. Bierce Library - Location & Driving Directions
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- Hours | Services | UA Libraries Catalog | Reserves | Requests | Help | UL Home Directions to Bierce Library.
- University of Akron ~ Bierce Library ~ 315 Buchtel Commons ~ Akron, OH 44325.
- Bierce Library is located on the north side of main campus between Buchtel Ave. ...
- Campus Map showing location of Bierce Library .
- DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO BIERCE LIBRARY from I-77 N.
- circle for access to Bierce Library handicap entrance/book drop/receiving dock. ... For Bierce Library handicap entrance/book drop/receiving dock, proceed to four-way stop. ... circle for access to Bierce Library handicap entrance/book drop/receiving dock. ... circle for access to Bierce Library handicap entrance/book drop/receiving dock. ... circle for access to Bierce Library handicap entrance/book drop/receiving dock. ...
10. Ambrose Bierce
- www.engl.niu.edu
- --7B58F50C-WebSite-Rules-Byte-Range-Data-7B58F50C Content-type: text/html Content-length: 32936 Last-modified: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:06:37 GMT Content-Range: bytes 0-32935/32936 Ambrose Bierce's "Chickamauga": An Interdisciplinary Approach .
- Overview: This site focuses on Ambrose Bierce and more specifically his short story "Chickamauga. " It gives a biography of Ambrose Bierce from an intellectual standpoint and from Bierce’s own standpoint. This site also includes a summary of "Chickamauga," the battle of Chickamauga, critical analysis of Bierce, and the social issues that Bierce discusses in his writings. The purpose of this web page is to further the knowledge of a scholar on Ambrose Bierce and his short story "Chickamauga. ...
- The Civil War’s Effect on Ambrose Bierce .
- Ambrose Bierce: The Biography .
- A Portrait of Ambrose Bierce: .
- Neale’s Ambrose Bierce .
- According to Neale, who knew Bierce personally, Bierce felt inferior his entire life, at least in terms of education and strove his entire life to transcend into a gentleman. However, in an attempt to become a gentleman Bierce usually ended up making a fool of himself because he talked as if he was an expert when he was not (Neale 41). Bierce grew up in Ohio on a farm, though his parents were "cultured," but moved away at the age of seventeen in his attempt to become a gentleman. Neale states that Bierce went to Elkhart, Indiana to further his education. ... At the outbreak of the Civil War Bierce joined the Union army and acted as a topographical engineer. When "the war ended, Bierce had neither the instincts nor the manners of a gentleman," so he moved to London, England (Neale 39). In London Bierce associated with "brutal, uncouth, immoral" men (Neale 39). A few years later Bierce, who still had not become a gentleman in his own eyes, moved to Washington, DC where he attempted to further his education. After many years of moving around, Neale states that Bierce possessed the best kind of education and the only kind: the kind that is self-acquired (48). This "self-acquired" education led Ambrose Bierce to become one of the best American authors. ...
11. Metroactive Books | Ambrose Bierce
- www.metroactive.com
- Fierce Bierce .
- From the newspaper wars of San Francisco to the literary salons of Los Gatos, Ambrose Bierce was a 20th-century cynic in 19th-century California.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
- AMBROSE BIERCE, turn-of-the-century California's most notorious and acid-tongued writer, once dispatched a hapless author with a review that consisted solely of the sentence "The covers of this book are too far apart. " Roy Morris' outstanding new biography, Ambrose Bierce, Alone in Bad Company, happily avoids that withering judgment and provides a welcome opportunity to reconsider America's first true cynic. ...
- Bierce, already nicely disillusioned by the Civil War, anticipated the misanthropic modernist mood of writers like Ernest Hemingway and H. ... Although Bierce's devastating short stories about the war between the states--most notably "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"--and his wickedly jaundiced The Devil's Dictionary are his most lasting literary legacies, he earned his living and his reputation in the trenches as a journalist and critic for William Randolph Hearst's muckraking Examiner. ...
- Bierce's journalism was a scandal in its time, just as it would be a scandal in ours. ... In avoiding what his audience wanted to hear echoed, Bierce devoted himself to roasting in print the fools, hypocrites and monied pigs of his age. ...
- Do daily newspapers really need to get duller? Bierce's specter is a reminder of the other side of journalism--a tradition of public-minded mean-spiritedness that is as dangerous as it is endangered. ...
- The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society: Very comprehensive collection, including a short biography, lists of Bierce's works, film and TV adaptions, works available online, and a detailed bibliography.
- The Devil's Dictionary: A searchable version of Bierce's biting classic. ...
- BIERCE'S forebears were zealous Christians who regarded the problem of slavery as the focus for the crucial battle between darkness and light, and young Ambrose volunteered at age 19 for service in the Union army. From the author's entry into the Civil War, as critic Edmund Wilson writes in Patriotic Gore, Bierce lived "between war and war the Mexican revolution, into which Bierce disappeared . ...
- After the war, Bierce held a number of jobs "with varying degree of success," as Morris writes. ... Eventually, Bierce was recruited by the young William Randolph Hearst, who made him nationally famous as a star editorial columnist. ...
12. Ambrose Bierce, "the Old Gringo": Fact, Fiction and Fantasy
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- Ambrose Bierce, "the Old Gringo": Fact, Fiction and Fantasy.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary.
- Had Ambrose Bierce survived his visit to Mexico he would, no doubt, have written some gripping literature about Mexican warfare. ... Who was Bierce, and what brought him from the safety of a comfortable retirement to the battlefields of the Mexican desert? To answer the question, one must understand what events made the man, especially his service as a soldier.
- That had been Ambrose Bierce’s war. ...
- It is therefore interesting that Bierce, who was 71 years old at the time, came to Chihuahua in order to observe the Mexican Revolution. ...
- Bierce was born in Ohio state on June 24, 1842. ... Bierce first gained the attention of literary critics with his book of Civil War stories entitled: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, wherein his most famous story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," is found. ... For thirty years Bierce resided in San Francisco, California, where he gained notoriety as a journalist with the Hearst newspaper chain.
- One of the many ironies about Bierce is that he detested William Randolph Hearst, his employer. ... Bierce had written a lengthy exposé of the newspaper magnate but, not wanting to embarrass Hearst’s aging mother, a woman the writer admired very much, he stored the manuscript with the manager of a Laredo, Texas, hotel for safekeeping before he went to Mexico. Bierce, it seems evident, intended to return for the material at a later date and then submit it for publication. However (and this complicates the puzzle), before the manuscript could be recovered by Bierce’s representatives in 1914 or 1915, it vanished from the hotel, never to reappear! This issue raises the question of the possibility of Hearst’s involvement in the confiscation of the manuscript by some means, and even of the possibility of some complicity on the part of Hearst, or of his henchmen, in the final disappearance Bierce.
- Nonetheless, Bierce is best remembered today not only for his literary work, but for his quixotic journey into Mexico during the winter of 1913 -- at the apex of the Mexican Revolution -- and then for his sudden disappearance in January 1914. ... Mexican author Carlos Fuentes wrote a novel entitled Gringo Viejo that was centered around Bierce. ... (Screen legend Gregory Peck played the role of Bierce. ...
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