Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it-on the battlefields and over the graves-and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war between...
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"The Parenticide Club" presents four twisted short stories about murder within a family. The events are seen through the gently innocent eyes of family members. These stories indirectly study criminology under a specific set of circumstances. Each of the four cases gives an account of the children's mental situation under unstable conditions.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Damned Thing" (1898, From "In the Midst of Life") by Ambrose Bierce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
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"The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams" by Ambrose Bierce. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability...
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Jerome Searing, soldado raso y valiente explorador de los federales, tendrá una misión cuyo fin no hubiera podido imaginar. Además de los evidentes méritos narrativos del cuento, el título de Uno de los desaparecidos prefigura el final de su autor, Ambrose Bierce, quien desapareció en México, en 1913, sin dejar rastros.
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One of the earliest short stories of the horror genre, Ambrose Bierce's A Vine on a House tells the compelling story of the Harding family. When Matilda Harding mysteriously vanishes, people begin to notice that a vine growing on the Harding house bears an uncanny resemblance to her. The events that unfold next are terrifying to the Harding family...and quite possibly to the reader as well. You will be riveted to the end of this old-fashioned ghost...
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. «El Monje y la hija del verdugo» es un clásico de la literatura gótica del escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) publicada en 1892. Bierce se inspira aquí en un texto alemán para dar su propia versión, una oscura narración impregnada de culpa, castigo y redención convirtiendo una historia de amor en algo oscuro, intrigante y macabro.
El propio narrador un joven franciscano llamado Ambrosius,...
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. 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. In late 1913, Bierce, then age 71, Bierce indicated he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared and...