By Ambrose Bierce
For the 1st time in publishing background, Delphi Classics is proud to offer the total works of grasp storyteller Ambrose Bierce. This complete e-book is spiced with a variety of illustrations, infrequent and forgotten texts, concise introductions and the standard Delphi bonus fabric. (Version 1)
* superbly illustrated with photographs on the subject of Bierce's lifestyles and works
* Concise introductions to the collections and different texts
* The infrequent novella THE DANCE OF loss of life appears to be like right here for the 1st time in electronic print
* all of the brief tale collections, with person contents tables
* that includes 475 stories, many showing for the 1st time in electronic print
* pictures of the way the books have been first revealed, giving your eReader a flavor of the unique texts
* very good formatting of the texts
* well-known works equivalent to COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL
are totally illustrated with their unique artwork
* detailed chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry, essays and the fast stories
* simply find the works you must read
* the full non-fiction, with many scarce essays and newspaper articles
* comprises Bierce's letters - spend hours exploring the author’s own correspondence
* designated feedback part, with essays comparing Bierce’s contribution to literature
* additionally offers a distinct ‘Biercian Texts’ part with attention-grabbing articles at the works and disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
* contains a bonus full-length biography - observe Bierce's literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Novellas
THE DANCE OF DEATH
THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER
THE LAND past THE BLOW
The brief tale Collections
THE FIEND’S DELIGHT
COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL
PRESENT AT a dangling, AND different GHOST STORIES
IN THE MIDST OF lifestyles: stories OF infantrymen AND CIVILIANS
CAN SUCH issues BE?
FANTASTIC FABLES
NEGLIGIBLE TALES
THE PARENTICIDE CLUB
THE FOURTH ESTATE
THE OCEAN WAVE
KINGS OF BEASTS
TWO ADMINISTRATIONS
MISCELLANEOUS TALES
The brief Stories
LIST OF brief tales IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF brief tales IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Poetry Collections
BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER
SHAPES OF CLAY
FABLES IN RHYME
SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS
THE SCRAP HEAP
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Non-Fiction
THE SHADOW at the DIAL, AND different ESSAYS
THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY
WRITE IT RIGHT
ASHES OF THE BEACON
“ON WITH THE DANCE!”: A REVIEW
A CYNIC seems AT LIFE
TANGENTIAL VIEWS
BITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS
The Essays
LIST OF ESSAYS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF ESSAYS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Letters
THE LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCE
The Criticism
AMBROSE BIERCE through Vincent Starrett
AMBROSE BIERCE: AN APPRAISAL by means of Frederic Tabor Cooper
ANOTHER try to advance BIERCE INTO IMMORTALITY
THE UNDERGROUND attractiveness OF AMBROSE BIERCE
AMBROSE BIERCE by way of Ella Sterling Cummins
Biercian Texts
LIST OF BIERCIAN ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
The Biography
AMBROSE BIERCE: A BIOGRAPHY by way of Carey McWilliams
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Qxd 4/13/04 2:10 PM Page 34 34 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 sh 34 reg 35 D a v i d F o s t e r Wa l l a c e innocuous icon’s face tended to bleed in his mind into one face, crude and line-drawn and clever in a small way, a design that someone might find some small selfish use for but could never love or hate or ever care to truly even know. Some of the shoppers inside the first-floor display window of the Gap observed the mass of people on the sidewalk craning upward and wondered, naturally, what was up.
Whose own character’s clear marriage of virtue, pragmatism, and oracular marketing savvy were his best and final argument; he was saying to these upper-management men in their vests and Cole Haans just what he proposed to have them say to a sorry and cynical US market: Trust Me You Will Not Be Sorry — which when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade later, Schmidt experiences a kind of full-frame internal wince, that type of embarrassment-before-self that makes our most mortifying memories objects of fascination and repulsion at once, though in Terry Schmidt’s case a certain amount of introspection and psychotherapy (the latter the origin of the self-caricature doodling during downtime in his beige cubicle) had enabled him to understand that his professional fantasies were not in the main all that unique, that a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful — what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they’ve experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives?
N. spots was a seminal example of this sort of multivalent pitch, Terry Schmidt said (tweaking Awad again and letting the small secret thrill of it almost make him throw a puckish wink at the smoke detector), as too was Jolt Cola’s brand name’s double entendre of a ‘jolt’ both to the individual nervous system and to the tyranny of dilute and innocuous soft drinks in an era of trendy self-denial, as well of course as Jolt’s well-packaged can’s iconic face with its bulging crossed eyes and electricized hair and ghastly fluorescent computer-room pallor — for Jolt had worked to position itself as a recreational beverage for digital-era phreaks and dweebs and had managed at once to acknowledge, parody, and evect the computer-dweeb as an avatar of individual rebellion.