| 单词 | Bierce |
| 例句 | And they toss away all plausibility for the final scene — unless that’s a reference to Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” REVIEW: The Skeleton Twins: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Play Saturday Night Dead 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In “The Devil’s Dictionary,” Ambrose Bierce defined patriotism as “combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.” “Cultural anxiety” is unpatriotic: America’s mission is for liberty and justice for all 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Imagine my shock when I discovered Ambrose Bierce. Luis Alberto Urrea: By the Book 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s not that there aren’t other places online to get information and cranky opinions about what Ambrose Bierce defined as “a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.” Other People?s Divorces 2010-11-29T18:50:00Z Bierce has a basic human sympathy for his protagonist in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z But the passage of time, and the erosion of context, has smoothed the edges of Bierce’s storytelling. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Bierce loathed this new national myth and inveighed against it in a column he wrote for the San Francisco Examiner. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Friends and peers describe him as looking like Ambrose Bierce, Charles Manson, Fidel Castro, “a cross between Noam Chomsky and Bluto.” Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z I found it particularly pleasing to learn that Twain, who knew Civil War veterans Ulysses S. Grant and Ambrose Bierce, also met Lewis Carroll and shook hands with Sigmund Freud. A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twain 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Bierce quite rightly takes his place, in my mind, as the king of the satirical dictionary compilers. The indefinable charm of satirical dictionaries 2011-03-01T12:07:50Z So, contrary to Ambrose Bierce's take from a century ago, people don't need to be wealthy or male to be philanthropists. Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Probably because I was taught, incorrectly, that Bierce’s story was a humanist tale about the sadness of war, it never occurred to me that the story might be, in some sense, tasteless. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z When I was in high school, my English class read a famous short story called “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” written in 1890 by Ambrose Bierce. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Bierce specialized in the short story, a form that Hitchcock liked to compare with film in terms of its narrative span, and he acknowledged, as did Hitchcock, a debt to Edgar Allan Poe. Is "Vertigo" just the fever dream of a dying man? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z In one overused plot gimmick, appropriated from Ambrose Bierce, the story’s protagonist discovers that he or she’s been dead all along. Review | These two books will lead you down a rabbit hole to unexpected literary delights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z They embark on a trip to trace the final path of the writer Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared in 1913, after setting out to join the Mexican Revolution. Books to Watch Out For: November 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Ambrose Bierce fought for the Union during all four years of the Civil War. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z His lexicon, published fully for the first time as The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, is shot through with the savage satire that apparently earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce". The indefinable charm of satirical dictionaries 2011-03-01T12:07:50Z What’s more, it turns out that the occultist’s inner circle included Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett and, most important, the Weird Tales author Clark Ashton Smith. Review | Why M.R. James is the Arthur Conan Doyle of supernatural fiction 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Yet it was Sterling who gained the patronage of the famous writer Ambrose Bierce, Sterling who was named the poet laureate of San Francisco. How a scholar unearthed the cyanide love triangle that toppled a California arts colony 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Locklin described this version of himself in a poem as “a starving Ambrose Bierce or some long-suffering, taller brother of Edgar Allan Poe.” Long Beach State's Gerald Locklin, Bukowski's drinking pal, left a lasting mark on writing — and writers 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography,” wrote Ambrose Bierce, whose bitter insights were shaped in large part by a terrible war. Opinion | In the South China Sea, Beijing’s claims to power signal danger ahead 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Douglas Pascover recalled Ambrose Bierce’s definition of politics: “A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” Analysis | The Daily 202: The 12 biggest storylines of the 2010s 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z There’s a reason why Ambrose Bierce described the telephone as “an invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable keep his distance.” Pelosi and Mnuchin have been chatting on the phone, possible indicator that there’s a debit-limit issue 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Along with miniature masterworks by the likes of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells and Ambrose Bierce are unexpected gems. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Back in April 1861, a very young Ambrose Bierce was the second man in Elkhart County, Indiana, to enlist in the Union army. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z As a soldier in the Civil War, Bierce witnessed scenes of slaughter over what was, in important ways, a fight to control rivers. Opinion | In the South China Sea, Beijing’s claims to power signal danger ahead 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Ambrose Bierce, for instance, was sure that restive and restless should have “directly contrary meanings”. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Ambrose Bierce defined politeness as “the most respectable hypocrisy.” How Politeness Ruins Careers And Companies 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The journalist Ambrose Bierce wrote about one soldier who fell at Shiloh in 1862. America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to read the war into much of Bierce’s writing, even when the subject is ostensibly otherwise. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z We develop an internal equivalent of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, to help us parse the proper meanings. The Spin 2013-05-15T11:52:33Z Defining a hero is harder than defining a coward — the latter of whom Ambrose Bierce got right: “One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.” Psychology of Heroism: Why Some Leap in Front of Bullets 2012-08-09T18:05:25Z In this densely researched and drily elegant book, Satan is pursued through Augustine, Marlowe, Milton, Shelley, Blake, Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, Auden, and CS Lewis's Screwtape, tales of self-mortification and witch-hunting, painting and the cinema. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-22T07:00:01Z Submitting it to the late Ambrose Bierce, asking him to revise the story, he suggested the retention of the tragic part and so revised it. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z He charted this new terrain, and it’s in Bierce that we find the original experience that all subsequent American war writers would grapple with. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z "A Conservative," wrote Bierce, for instance, is "a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." The Spin 2013-05-15T11:52:33Z I scarcely know, but I will say that among what I may term 'underground reputations' that of Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most striking example. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Ashforth is a fan of the American satirist Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil's Dictionary, which defines a cabbage as "a vegetable, about as large and about as wise as a man's head". Claims Five: The funniest book about horse racing 2011-02-11T12:08:08Z I can only add that my faith in Bierce's judgment of letters is as firm to-day as it was then, when I gave him power of attorney to place my book with a publisher. The Monk and The Hangman's Daughter 2012-01-19T03:00:23.620Z Late in life, Bierce described his military service in these terms: It was once my fortune to command a company of soldiers – real soldiers. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Bierce, however, recognizing its value, unselfishly advised Bret Harte to give it a place in the “Overland,” and this was finally done. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z These letters of Ambrosevi Bierce, here printed for the first time, are therefore of unusual interest. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z "Have you ever read about a man named Ambrose Bierce?" The Huddlers It is natural, considering the experiences through which he passed at the time of life in which conscious impressions are most vivid, that Mr. Bierce should turn frequently to the incidents of war. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Often Bierce writes of the fatal, or nearly so, shock, the twist that flips conventional wisdom on its back and shows reality to be much darker and crueler than we want to believe. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Congenial tasks and association with the brilliant journalists of the day did not prevent Bierce from being undeniably hard up at times. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z I was reading Ambrose Bierce when she came in. The Huddlers Among living American writers of short stories, Ambrose Bierce is un-excelled in strength and fine simplicity. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Observe also how Bierce can attain the most stirring denouements from a few simple happenings; denouements which develop purely from these preceding circumstances. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Traveling over the same ground that he had covered with General Hazen's brigade during the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce, famed writer and noted critic, has arrived in New Orleans. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The child has heard nothing of the 86 apocalyptic visions, and does not know Poe, Ambrose Bierce, or Kipling. Waiting for Daylight For Mr. Bierce, as did Flaubert, holds that the right word is necessary for the conveyance of the right thought and his sense of word values rarely betrays him into error. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Not the easiest personality to begin with, Bierce showed no appreciable mellowing from his war experience. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Unity is the quality we have lately noted and praised in Poe and Bierce. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Bierce's style, too, by its very fineness, alienated his public. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z He edited one of Bierce's volumes, adding a pleasant and scholarly little introduction. Pipefuls Mr. Bierce wrote in "The Examiner," January 20, 1895, as follows: "We are plundered because we have no particular aversion to plunderers." The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 One thinks of Ambrose Bierce sitting all day in the sun at Shiloh, an old man, his war long past, biding silently with his ghosts. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z These guys were good, but no matter how good they were, Catherine Lewis had vanished as neatly as Ambrose Bierce. Highways in Hiding Bierce had no fear of the dead folk and their marble city. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Plain realism, as in Gorky's "Nachtasyl" and the war stories of Ambrose Bierce, simply wearies us by its vacuity; plain romance, if we ever get beyond our nonage, makes us laugh. A Book of Prefaces But furthest of all in his scientific explanation—not scientifically explaining away, but in explaining the way—goes Bierce as he outlines a theory. The Best Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce, from A Sole Survivor Memorial Day is upon us, our 15th since the dawning of the Era of the AUMF, and you’d think smart people would have learned a few things by now. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z I am going to leave Jenny Bierce to you. A Man and a Woman Isolated from most men by the exalted and austere habit of his thought, Bierce finally suffered a corresponding exile of the body, and was forced to live in high altitudes, which of necessity are lonely. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z For all our professed delight in and capacity for jocosity, we have produced so far but one genuine wit—Ambrose Bierce—and, save to a small circle, he remains unknown today. A Book of Prefaces But California can tell us stories that are grim children of the tales of the wild Ambrose Bierce. The Art of the Moving Picture Then again, no one did; the industrial slaughter of the civil war was something new under the sun, and Bierce survived some of the worst of it. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z But neither quoits nor Jenny Bierce sufficed at all times for forgetfulness. A Man and a Woman Through the efforts of the War Department, all United States Consuls were questioned as to Bierce's possible departure from the country; all Americans visiting or residing in Mexico were begged for information—even prospectors. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z His friend, Ambrose Bierce, spoke of him as the most scholarly man on the Pacific Coast. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment Written by a youth who had scarcely passed his majority, this book has been compared with Tolstoy's "Sebastopol" and Zola's "La Débâcle," and with some of the short stories of Ambrose Bierce. Men, Women, and Boats His older son shot himself dead at age 16, and the younger drank himself to death in his 20s; for his own part, Bierce maintained a lifelong obsession with suicide. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z But, in the evening, there was Jenny Bierce, and she was very real, as well as charming. A Man and a Woman To whom, and to all the rest of your people, my sincere regards, Your uncle, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z It is easy to imagine the zest with which the chivalrous Bierce plunged into preparations for the fight. A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky The comparison with Bierce's work is legitimate; with the other books, I think, less so. Men, Women, and Boats Head shots in that era were almost always fatal, but Bierce survived not only the initial wound, but an awful two-day train ride on an open flatcar to an army hospital in Chattanooga. Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflict 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z In the early evening he found Jenny Bierce. A Man and a Woman With good wishes for all your people, I am sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z But the struggle never came; it was sufficient to learn that Bierce would be the Richmond; the attack upon the stricken ex-empress was abandoned. A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky Talking of weird American stories, have you ever read any of the works of Ambrose Bierce? Through the Magic Door And some time, when we get together in San Francisco, I'll lead you up against Bierce—the one this cove is named after. The Valley of the Moon But awake as often as I might, always I found Bierce lying on his back in the dim light of the embers, his gaze fixed on the stars of the zenith. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Much of Bierce's best work was done in those years in San Francisco. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z For Bierce carried into actual practice his convictions on ethical matters. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Were Ambrose Bierce as well known as he deserves to be, the introduction to these letters could be slight; we should not have to stop to inquire who he was and what he did. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z "But how did you ever find your way to Bierce's Cove?" he was curious to know. The Valley of the Moon Bierce's descriptions of Civil War battles in his Bits of Autobiography are the best descriptions of battle ever written. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z For the next twenty years Ambrose Bierce was a prolific writer but, whatever the reason, no further volumes of stories from his pen were presented to the world. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z It was decidedly not Bierce time when Bierce's stories appeared. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z But I don't like to think of that miserable mountain sitting there and grinning in the consciousness of having beaten the Bierce family. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z That's the first time in the history of Bierce's Cove that two men made that jump on the same sea. The Valley of the Moon Another question facing every critic of Bierce, is why the fundamentally original point of view, the clarityxviii of workmanship of his best things—mainly stories—did not win him immediate and general recognition. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce has but few themes, few moods; his literary river runs clear and sparkling, but confined—a narrow current, not the opulent stream that waters wide plains of thought and feeling. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z "Revolting!" cried the critics when they read Bierce's Chickamauga and The Affair at Coulter's Notch. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce himself knew that although it is always the fashion to jeer at fashion, its rule is absolute for all that, whether it be fashion in boots or books. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The Abalone Eaters, in two rigs and on a number of horses, descended in force on Bierce's Cove. The Valley of the Moon So much for Bierce the artist; the man is found in these letters. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce can make us accept as valid and tragic events more odd than the one de Maupassant had to reject. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z In London Bierce found congenial and stimulating associates. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z All this must not be taken to mean that the "form and pressure of the time" put into Bierce what was not there. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z As a satirist Bierce was the best America has produced,xxiv perhaps the best since Voltaire. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce, born in Ohio in 1842, came to San Francisco soon after the close of the Civil War. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z What narrator save Bierce can convey the sense of their being lightly swift, and, again and again the shock of surprise the event itself must have given? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z However, Bierce thought best of himself as a satirist. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With best regards to all good Partingtons—and I think there are no others—I remain your affectionate uncle by adoption, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z It is significant that public praise first came to Bierce through his articles in the caustic News Letter, widely read on the Pacific Coast during the seventies. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z An inquisitive question was interjected as to whether Mr. Bierce had acquired a competency only from his writings, but he did not take offense. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce was a sculptor who wrought in hardest crystal. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z No further word has ever come from or of Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z In any consideration of the work of Ambrose Bierce, a central question must be why it contains so much that is trivial or ephemeral. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z A partial answer to both questions is to be found in a certain discord between Bierce and his setting. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce, paradoxically, combined the bizarre in substance, the severely restrained and compressed in form. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce lived many years in Washington before making a visit to his old home. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z But to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With best regards to all your people, and in the hope that13 we may frequently hear from you, I am very sincerely your friend,Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With best regards to your family I am sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With cordial regards to all good Robertsons—I think there are no others—I am most sincerely your friend, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This concerns itself with Bierce's son, Leigh, then a youth in the early twenties. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z My work is finished, and so am I. Luck to you in the new year, and in many to follow.190 Sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Regretting my inability to assist you, I am sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z My name is Bierce, and I find, on reflection, that I like best those who call me just that. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Which was the real belief of Ambrose Bierce? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z On October 2, 1913, Ambrose Bierce, having settled his business affairs, left Washington for a trip through the southern states, declaring in letters his purpose of going into Mexico and later on to South America. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z On the original fabric of Bierce's mind the satiric strand has encroached more than the design allows. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Some may argue that Bierce's failure to attain international or even national fame cannot be ascribed solely to a lack of concord between the man and his time and to the consequent reaction in him. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce's interest does not lie in the group experience nor even in the experience of the individual through a long period. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z That Bierce could not paint the large canvas does not make him negligible or even inconsiderable. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With warmest regards to all your people, I am, as ever, your most unworthy uncle, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z We made inquiry and found that Bierce had for several years been writing columns of critical comment, satirically named Prattle, for the editorial page of the Sunday Examiner, of San Francisco. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With best regards to all your family, I am sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Sincerely yours, with best regards to the pretty ever-so-much-better half of you,Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Naturally, Bierce carried his wit and humor into his immediate human relationships. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With good will to all your people—particularly Phyllis—I am sincerely your friend, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z At which Bierce dryly and justly remarked: "No—bring some thistles!" The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z One conversant with Bierce only as a controversionalist and censor morum was, almost of necessity, constrained to imagine him a misanthrope, a soured and cynical recluse. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce subsequently attended one of the midsummer encampments of the Bohemian Club, of which he was once the secretary, in their redwood grove near the Russian river. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce was the cleanest man, personally, of whom I have knowledge—almost fanatically so, if such a thing be possible. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z But this to Bierce was mostly "journalism, a thing so low that it cannot be mentioned in the same breath with literature." The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Bierce contributed to several of these and to Figaro, the editor of which was James Mortimer. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Young Bierce had contracted a liaison with a girl of his own age, and his father, determined to end the affair, had appointed an hour for discussion of the matter. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With sincere regards to all your family, I am most truly your friend,Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z O yes, I'd like well enough to "leave the Journal," but— Sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Perhaps it was in mourning for the dead over whose battlefields he has been wending his way toward New Orleans that Mr. Bierce was dressed in black. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z And may the good Lord bless you regularly every hour of every day for your merit, and every minute of every hour as a special and particular favor to Your uncle, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z That poem is itself sufficiently dedicatory if printed by itself in the forepages of the book and labeled "Dedication—To Ambrose Bierce." The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z With best regards to Mrs. Sterling and Katie I am sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z |
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