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Beschreibung
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Über den Autor
Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, journalist, satirist, editor, and Civil War veteran whose fiction and nonfiction made him one of the sharpest and darkest voices in nineteenth-century American literature. Born in Ohio in 1842, Bierce served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and saw combat at several major engagements. His direct experience of battle shaped much of his most enduring fiction, giving his war stories an unusual severity, psychological force, and resistance to patriotic simplification.Bierce is best remembered for The Devil's Dictionary, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," and his many stories of war, death, irony, horror, and the supernatural. His writing combines precision, bitterness, wit, and moral shock, often revealing the thin line between civilisation and violence. Bierce's influence reaches across American short fiction, Civil War literature, weird fiction, satire, psychological horror, and modern war writing, and his work remains essential for readers interested in classic American literature and the darker traditions of the American imagination.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Märchen & Sagen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780766185852
ISBN-10: 0766185850
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bierce, Ambrose
Hersteller: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 191 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Ambrose Bierce
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2004
Gewicht: 0,255 kg
Artikel-ID: 129650737