Ambrose by any other name...  He wrote "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" & "The Devil's Dictionary"
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Wikipedia  "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" or "A Dead Man's Dream" is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. ... He considers the possibility of jumping off the bridge and swimming to safety if he .... short story written in the 19th century by Ambrose Bierce called 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'. .... In other projects.
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Ambrose Bierce - Wikipedia  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842  circa 1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. ... He was the tenth of thirteen children whose father gave all names beginning...
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Ambrose Bierce - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online ...  The Devil's Dictionary was originally titled The Cynic's Word Book. ... He also wrote numerous Civil War stories from first-hand experience. Many of his works are ranked among other esteemed American authors' like Edgar Allen Poe ... and, some say his most popular short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890).
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by kenton jen on Prezi  By Ambrose Pierce Occurence of Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and...
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SparkNotes: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Context  A short Ambrose Bierce biography describes Ambrose Bierce's life, times, and work. ... and literary context that influenced An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. ... He wrote for a variety of San Francisco periodicals and became the editor of the ... Book (1906) and later reissued under the title The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
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The Book that Made Glens Falls Famous: An Introduction to James ...  Joining the group for part of their tour was a rising young American novelist, James ... It was not until 1820 that James Fenimore Cooper turned to writing. ... 1793, Cooper had introduced the characters of Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook as aged men ... And The Last of the Mohicans is told in what is called the Gothic mode...
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Ambrose Bierce - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online ...  Biography of Ambrose Bierce and a searchable collection of works. ... to write about and his future short stories based on the Civil War include The Crime ... and, some say his most popular short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890). ... writing reviews, essays, poems, short stories, and sketches and submitting...
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THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY - by AMBROSE BIERCE  The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. ... In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the ..... This word has no definition. .... BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. BOTANY, n.
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Ambrose Bierce | John J. Miller | Hey Miller  Jan 21, 2012 ... The head wound came a day before his 22nd birthday, at Georgia's ... Lew Wallace, a Union general, put out Ben-Hur, but it didn't recount the war either. ... see his essay What I Saw of Shiloh  but made his lasting mark ... Bierce's signal achievement was An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, one of the...
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The Political History of the Devil: Daniel Defoe: 9780486802374 ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. After exploring several careers  as a merchant, ... The Political History of the Devil and over one million other books are available for .... Irreverent and ironic, this 1726 satire by the author of Robinson Crusoe .... Defoe's works on demonology and the occult are seemingly at odds with his...
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Amazon.fr - American Supernatural Tales - S. T. Joshi, S.T. Joshi ...  From Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King, American authors have excelled at journeying ... H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. ... Reprinted by permission of the Karl Edward Wagner Literary Group. ...... his first book, A History of New York (1809), published under the pseudonym...
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The Lady of the Lake by Scott - AbeBooks  The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Sir Walter and a great selection of similar Used, New and ... Author: scott, ... There is a name printed on the top of the title page. .... win the heart of Ellen Douglas, and the feud between King James V and James Douglas. ... His characters are unlike those of any other Scottish or English writer.
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the ...  Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon who had served in the Civil War, was one of the most prolific contributors to the dictionary, sending thousands of neat, ..... contextualize definitions, it was Minor, already an inmate at an asylum after it .... I have been meaning to read this book for years  I couldn't even tell you...
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Full text of "Works. Arr. by Thomas Sheridan, with notes, historical ...  By Mr. Bowyer 443 Epigram intended to be placed under the head of Gulliver ..... was struck aslant and buried in the wound, which Mr. Harley himself took out, ...... If the thing be not worth, publishing, either the author is a fool, or his friend a knave. ...... Here lies the earl of Suft^blk's fool, Men call'd him Dicky Pearce ; His folly...
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With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 1 (1906) - The Walt Whitman ...  easily digestible: so Whitman as the author of an indecent book had to go. ..... rank as a politician, yet his principles, if grasped, would revolutionize the world. ...... Next thing we shall have to meet will be the stories of what Emerson said to this ...... [See indexical note p081.1] I don't believe in Cleveland because I think he is...
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Smollett and Tom Jones - 1749 -  | The Lost Works of Tobias ...  Jan 25, 2015 ... Significantly, neither source mentions the term "novel", far less the picaresque novel; ..... is to Captain Hercules Vinegar, a non-de-plume Fielding used of himself. ..... to cousin also being a literary device to mean cousin or brother "author". ..... This was Horace's translation of the first line of Homer's Odyssey.
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Ambrose Bierce News - The Ambrose Bierce Site  Pohle, author of thirty books, is currently updating his 1983 book, The Christopher .... certain events occurred that prevented me from devoting too much time to the hobby, and the .... AMBROSE BIERCE, JUNE 24, 1842 TO 1913? ...... When he defines "Birth" as "the first and direst of all disasters" you can't help feeling a pang...
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The House of the Seven Gables - University of Delhi  Bridge helped him to publish his collection of stories, Twice-Told Tales. That's Interesting! Hawthorne added the 'w' to his surname after his graduation from college ostensibly to make the spelling ... was a campaign biography for his college classmate. ..... Her rich cousin Judge Pyncheon and Uncle Venner also pay a visit.
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THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY - by AMBROSE BIERCE  In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's ... In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to ..... provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. .... The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
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jeopardy/1505_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  VISUALIZE THE VEEPS | James is the real first name of this veep: | Dan Quayle .... "AND" READ | Nursery-rhyme pair who are the title of a book by Louisa May Alcott & a less innocent book by James Patterson | Jack And Jill ... "AND" READ | Logically, this 1862 Turgenev novel addresses generational conflict | Fathers And...
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Book - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Thomas Paine 1718-1799 common sense 1776, the American crisis ... Ambrose Bierce, 1842- 1913 The Devil's Dictionary, at 71 he went south of ...... Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas play, or where you might find "milkwort" in Webster's 3rd Int'l...