Ambrose Bierce

What I Saw of Shiloh -The Memories and Experiences of Ambrose Bierce During the American Civil War (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ambrose Bierce was one of the most famous writers in the world at the turn of the 20th century, a vocal and passion critic and probably best known for his works centred on the American civil war, of which he served in. Here is a collection of Bierce's finest work on the topic, including his first hand accounts of the horror and futility of the fighting and his marvellous short stories inspired by what he witnessed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473360259
• Artikelnr.: 44933389

Autorenporträt

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) journalist, satirist, and Civil War veteran, began his satirical redefinitions of ordinary words in a weekly newspaper in 1881, and saw them first collected in The Cynic's Word Book (1906). It was with the 1911 republication as The Devil's Dictionary that he struck comedy gold for the ages with his ironic riffs on American culture. Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States.