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Showing posts with label Ambrose Bierce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ambrose Bierce. Show all posts
May 5, 2014

Bierce on Bowman: groping in the night

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James F. Bowman (pictured) was at the center of California's burgeoning literary culture, and was one of the main figures in founding...
December 11, 2013

Ambrose Bierce: The devil's purveyor

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Though The Devil's Dictionary eventually became one of Ambrose Bierce 's most well-known works, the book had a difficult beginnin...
July 13, 2013

Bierce: a selfish motive and a real benevolence

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Tom Hood , editor of the British humor magazine Fun , asked Ambrose Bierce to contribute something appropriate for that publication. The ...
June 5, 2013

Bierce: Storm of bullets and grape

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Ambrose Bierce 's short story " Killed at Resaca " was first published on June 5, 1887 in the San Francisco Examiner . The n...
January 23, 2013

Bierce: that is a law of nature

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Ambrose Bierce had a lifelong fascination, perhaps even an obsession, with war. "Every generation must have its war; that is a law o...
September 3, 2012

Bierce: No trace of him was ever discovered

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According to legend, a man named James Burne Worson of Warwickshire, England got a little tipsy one day and, in his usual bravado, accepted...
April 7, 2012

Two accounts of Shiloh

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The two-day Battle of Shiloh , which ended April 7, 1862, saw an overwhelming number of Confederate soldiers overtake a Union Army line in w...
January 3, 2012

Bierce: A Cargo of Cats

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Ambrose Bierce was editor-in-chief of Wasp when the San Francisco magazine's January 3, 1885 issue published his short story " A ...
September 7, 2011

Bierce and Sterling: ignorant asses

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Both Ambrose Bierce and George Sterling became strongly associated with California, though they were born elsewhere (Ohio and New York, re...
September 4, 2011

Bierce: Its author's main and best ambition

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Despite already publishing several prose works and even poetry , Ambrose Bierce had difficulty finding a publisher for his book Tales of S...
April 4, 2011

Bierce: found to be a hole

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The New York World reported exclusive news on April 4, 1915: Ambrose Bierce was alive . Bierce had vanished mysteriously in Mexico whil...
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March 15, 2011

Bierce: Very cheerfully yours

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Ambrose Bierce contributed a series of "Grizzly Papers" under the name "Ursus," published in the Overland Monthly in C...
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December 26, 2010

Bierce: for an unknown destination

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At 71 years old, Ambrose Bierce began a tour of Civil War battlefields. Making his way through Louisiana and Texas, Bierce went further sou...
November 9, 2010

Jupiter Doke: I think him a fool

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"It is the proudest moment of my life," wrote Jupiter Doke to the Secretary of War on November 9, 1861. "The office is one w...
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September 21, 2010

Bierce: Sweet-spiced with aromatic death!

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The first published poem by Ohio-born Ambrose Bierce was printed in the September 21, 1867 edition of Californian . The 46-line "Basi...