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Halpin Fraysers död och andra noveller
Inbunden, 2024
189 kr
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En av de stora amerikanska skräckmästarna »En av de stora amerikanska skräckförfattarna.« H.P. Lovecraft 1913 red Ambrose Bierce, 71 år gammal, ut i Mexikos vildmark och försvann spårlöst. Efter sig lämnade han legenden om sin bitterhet och oförsonlighet, samt ett författarskap som än i dag, över …
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
and Other Stories
Häftad, 2000
228 kr
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Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction.This new collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War …
Devil’s Dictionary: The Complete Edition
The Complete Edition – 1911 edition, enriched with over 800 definitions left out from the original publications
Häftad, 2019
129 kr
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Only edition in printA celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce’s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary …
Främlingen
E-bok, 2026
49 kr
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»En av de stora amerikanska skräckförfattarna.« H.P. Lovecraft 1913 red Ambrose Bierce, 71 år gammal, ut i Mexikos vildmark och försvann spårlöst. Efter sig lämnade han legenden om sin bitterhet och oförsonlighet, samt ett författarskap som än i dag, över 100 år senare, talar till oss med mäktig …
Flight or Fright
17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
Av James L. Dickey, Peter Treemayne m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
45 kr
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Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and …
Ways of Ghosts
And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce
Av Ambrose Bierce, Mike Ashley
Häftad, 2023
132 kr
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Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those devilish eyes maintained their watch.Ambrose Bierce was one of America’s leading writers of the nineteenth century, seen by contemporaries as a successor to Edgar Allan Poe …
Literary Outlaw #22
An Inhabitant Of Carcosa
Av Ambrose Bierce, Kevin G Summers
Häftad, 2026
172 kr
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Flight or Fright
17 Turbulent Tales Edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
Av Stephen King, Bev Vincent m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
145 kr
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Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and …
Den högra fotens mellersta tå
E-bok, 2026
49 kr
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»En av de stora amerikanska skräckförfattarna.« H.P. Lovecraft 1913 red Ambrose Bierce, 71 år gammal, ut i Mexikos vildmark och försvann spårlöst. Efter sig lämnade han legenden om sin bitterhet och oförsonlighet, samt ett författarskap som än i dag, över 100 år senare, talar till oss med mäktig …
En händelse på Owl Creek Bridge
E-bok, 2026
49 kr
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»En av de stora amerikanska skräckförfattarna.« H.P. Lovecraft 1913 red Ambrose Bierce, 71 år gammal, ut i Mexikos vildmark och försvann spårlöst. Efter sig lämnade han legenden om sin bitterhet och oförsonlighet, samt ett författarskap som än i dag, över 100 år senare, talar till oss med mäktig …
Månskensvägen
E-bok, 2026
49 kr
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»En av de stora amerikanska skräckförfattarna.« H.P. Lovecraft 1913 red Ambrose Bierce, 71 år gammal, ut i Mexikos vildmark och försvann spårlöst. Efter sig lämnade han legenden om sin bitterhet och oförsonlighet, samt ett författarskap som än i dag, över 100 år senare, talar till oss med mäktig …
En klängväxt på ett hus
E-bok, 2026
49 kr
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»En av de stora amerikanska skräckförfattarna.« H.P. Lovecraft 1913 red Ambrose Bierce, 71 år gammal, ut i Mexikos vildmark och försvann spårlöst. Efter sig lämnade han legenden om sin bitterhet och oförsonlighet, samt ett författarskap som än i dag, över 100 år senare, talar till oss med mäktig …
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2018
392 kr
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Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
Av Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hopkins
Häftad, 2001
179 kr
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An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary".
Spook House
Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
E-bok, 2008
79 kr
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Death awaits them all …A man stares into the deep river swirling beneath him – hands tied, noose around his neck – and waits for the order to end his life. Another is trapped for eternity in a room full of corpses. A cowering woman is strangled in the dead of night. These are just some of the …
The Devil's Dictionary
Inbunden, 1999
676 kr
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History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self-Esteem, n. An erroneous …
The Devil's Dictionary
Häftad, 1999
293 kr
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History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self-Esteem, n. An erroneous …
The Devil's Dictionary
Häftad, 2000, 12-15 år
170 kr
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Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by the 19th-century journalist and satirist often called "the American Swift." Congratulations are "the civility of envy." A coward is "one who in an emergency thinks with his legs." A historian is a "broad-gauge gossip," more. H. L. Mencken called these …
Devil's Dictionary
Häftad, 2008
161 kr
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A word book, straight up, with a twist, "The Devil's Dictionary" is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America's first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against …
Shadows of Blue and Gray
The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Av Ambrose Bierce, Brian M. Thomsen
Häftad, 2003
246 kr
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Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War - he lived through it, on the battlefields and along the picket lines. In so doing he gave birth to a chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. That some of these stories verge on the supernatural, others on …
Civil War Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Av Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins
Häftad, 1988
187 kr
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In The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined "war" as "a by-product of the arts of peace." A Civil War veteran, Bierce had absolutely no illusions about "courage," "honor," and "glory" on the battlefield. These stories form one of the great antiwar statements in American literature. Included …
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
Av Ambrose Bierce, M. E. Grenander
Häftad, 1996
203 kr
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Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose Devil's Dictionary remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the English-speaking world, he was also a master of the short story form. From the late 1860s through the early 1900s, …
Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Av Ambrose Bierce, David E. Schultz m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
348 kr
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If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the …
Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Av Ambrose Bierce, David E. Schultz m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
456 kr
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If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary . There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating …
Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Av Ambrose Bierce, David E. Schultz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1650 kr
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If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the …
Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Av Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
444 kr
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If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary . There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating …
Write It Right: Ambrose Bierce's Blacklist of Literary Faults
Av Ambrose Bierce, Sasha Newborn
Häftad
165 kr
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