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Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them "The Death of Halpin Frayser" and "The Damned Thing," and such tall tales as "Oil of Dog" and "A Cargo of Cat."

In her foreword, Cathy N. Davidson, author of The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce, shows that Bierce, in form and mood, left behind the writers of his time and anticipated those of our own.

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"He will remain one of our greatest wits, one of our most uncompromising satirists, the perfecter of two or three new genres." Clifton Fadiman

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Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as 'bitter Bierce' and 'the devil's lexicographer.' He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature.
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In her foreword, Cathy N. Davidson, author of The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce, shows that Bierce, in form and mood, left behind the writers of his time and anticipated those of our own.
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ISBN:
9780803260719
Editor:
Hopkins, Ernest J.
Foreword by:
Cathy N. Davidson
Foreword by:
Davidson, Cathy N.
Foreword:
Davidson, Cathy N.
Editor:
Hopkins, Ernest J.
Editor:
Hopkins, Ernest Jerome
Author:
Hopkins, Ernest Jerome
Author:
Bierce, Ambrose
Author:
Davidson, Cathy N.
Publisher:
Bison Books
Location:
Lincoln, Nebraska
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Manners and customs
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1985
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
no. 204
Publication Date:
January 1984
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Illus.
Pages:
496
Dimensions:
8 x 5.25 in 1.2 lb
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