Ambrose Bierce: 382 books

Best known as a master of searing satire, American author Ambrose Bierce was also an accomplished short story writer. The engrossing tale "The Damned Thing" presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable -- and untameable -- essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different...

Ambrose Bierce master combination of black humor, sarcasm and cynicism makes the trick and your inner parricidal tendencies will make you laugh and laugh.

Gatti generosi, pronti a offrire subito il proprio affetto, gatti perfidi, capaci di architettare terribili trappole, gatti vittime dell’egoismo umano, gatti che ridonano ai loro padroni il perduto equilibrio spirituale; e poi gatti pasticcioni, gatti filosofi, gatti spioni, gatti rubacuori, gatti...

The Chouans [Honoré de Balzac] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] One of Ours [Willa Cather] Ailsa Paige [Robert William Chambers] The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers] The Duel [Joseph Conrad] The Tale [Joseph Conrad] The Deerslayer [James Fenimore Cooper] The Last of the Mohicans...

On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman, but Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous sympathy with her, and in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time...

Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and many-faceted genius. Poet, critic, satirist, fun-maker, incomparable writer of fables and masterly...

"Eine Menge origineller Ideen, großteils ansprechend bis fantastisch umgesetzt. So sollten Anthologien sein." (standard.at) Science Fiction und Phantastik in erlesener Auswahl: Tiefgründig, hintersinnig und nachdenklich, aber auch abenteuerlich und böse sind die erzählerischen Streifzüge,...

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: El Diccionario del Diablo es una recopilación satírica de 998 definiciones corrosivas escrito de 1881 a 1906 por Ambrose Bierce. Inicialmente fue publicado en fragmentos en diversos periódicos durante más de veinte años. Al finalizar, en 1911, se recopiló...

CONTENIDO: Cuentos de horror [Ambrose Bierce] El monte de las ánimas [Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer] El Horror de Dunwich [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] La Llamada de Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] El Horla [Guy de Maupassant] Relatos escogidos II [Edgar Allan Poe] Berenice [Edgar Allan Poe] Relatos...

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Ambrose Bierce: The Collected Works -Lewis Carroll: The Complete Works -Emily Dickinson: Complete Poems Emily Dickinson -O. Henry: Complete Stories -Homer: The complete Epic Poems -Henry James: Complete Works -Guy de Maupassant:...

Die Sammlung enthält 14 Geschichten von Ambrose Bierce, darunter Klassiker wie das 'Spukhaus' und 'Die Schwierigkeit eine Weide zu überqueren'. Es wurden aber auch Texte aufgenommen, die zu Unrecht in Vergessenheit geraten sind, wie etwa die obskure Erzählung 'Der Weinstock' oder die in ihrer Zuspitzung...

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-like definitions.

Un'Arcadia popolata di animali, di figure mitiche e immortali, contadini, viandanti, volpi, leoni, serpenti... Il mondo incantato delle favole. E questo mondo è letteralmente ribaltato, avvelenato, dal cinismo, dal sarcasmo e dal moralismo spietato di Ambrose Bierce. La vittima diventa carnefice,...

Una ragazza bellissima, avvolta in una veste rossa come il fuoco, scalza in un campo di fiori. Sola di fronte a un uomo appena impiccato. È questa la visione che sconvolge la mente del giovane frate Ambrosius, inviato dai suoi superiori in una remota e pericolosa località delle alpi austriache....