The Devil's Dictionary - By Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett About the Author Ambrose Bierce (18421914?), friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of nineteenth-century America s most renowned satirists. http://www.bookfinder.us/review8/0486275426.html
Extractions: Satiric lexicon by Ambrose Bierce, first compiled as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and reissued under the author's preferred title five years later. The barbed definitions that Bierce began publishing in the Wasp, a weekly journal he edited in San Francisco from 1881 to 1886, brought this 19th-century stock form to a new level of artistry. Employing a terse, aphoristic style, Bierce lampooned social, professional, and religious convention, as in his definitions for bore"A person who talks when you wish him to listen"; architect"One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money"; and saint"A dead sinner revised and edited." Many of the entries include "authenticating" citations from spurious scholarly sources. Adapted and illustrated by Gahan Wilson, The Devil's Dictionary is a hilarious satire from one of the most brilliant and incisive writers of all timeAmbrose Bierce. Gahan Wilson's work appears regularly in The New Yorker and Playboy; he illustrated the Classics Illustrated version of Poe's The Raven and Other Stories.
Extractions: O P T I M I S T , n. A proponent of the d o c t r i n e that black is white." ~ Ambrose Bierce Born on this day in Meigs County, Ohio, journalist Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was the 10th of 13 children and is best known for writing The Devil's Dictionary (1906), a collection of satirical and perceptive aphorisms such as: LOVE : a temporary insanity, curable by marriage Or, "KILL v.t.: To create a vacancy without nominating a successor." And better, still, " KISS , n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." His cynical humor and powerful short stories, born from his experiences as a Union officer in the American Civil War, have been described as having a "Northern Mark Twain " style. Of Bierce's famous war tale, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge (1890), writer Stephen Crane said, "Nothing better existsthe story has everything." In 1887, Bierce joined William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner as a columnist. Known for his lively wordplay and macabre sense of humor , he kept a skull on his desk and claimed it belonged to a rival critic Death is not the end," wrote the man nicknamed "Bitter Bierce," "the devil's lexicographer," and "Acid Pen," "there remains litigation over the estate."
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Jester Prophet Ambrose Bierce Jester Prophet Ambrose Bierce. (18421914?). Faith belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. http://www.virushead.net/bdi/jester_ambrosebierce.html
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Extractions: PAID ADVERTISEMENTS Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was one of the foremost writers of the 19th - century. His stories of war, of despair, of horror, of the mysterious, were epoch defining and continue to influence literature. For his wit he was called the Mark Twain of the North. He was the chum of Jack London and the mentor of H. L. Mencken . The very first tract he wrote was a defense of atheism and freethought, a theme he would never leave. His meager childhood was brightened, and he was ultimately empowered by his father, who gave him the love of history and literature. At 19 he enlisted, and was seared by his experiences in the Civil War, where he served with distinction. Afterwards, he wrote over a thousand columns for various newspapers. William Randolph Hearst secured him as soon as he acquired the San Francisco Examiner . There he stayed for over 20 years. All the while Bierce wrote war stories, horror stories, novels, and short stories of the mysterious and the macabre. Apparently he wrote because he had to, to get it out, to deal with it, to survive the impact of the Civil War on his life he had to tell of the headless corpses, the boar-eaten bodies of the fallen men, the blood, the screams. Bierce wrote of the insanity to keep depression from taking him. He challenged his country to become civilized enough to admit its hypocrisies, pretensions and its crassness.
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Extractions: Assim como seus personagens, Ambrose Bierce era uma figura lendária. Considerado um dos criadores do jornalismo sarcástico, foi um dos críticos mais mordazes da sociedade americana. Neste sentido, uma de suas obras mais notórias é "O Dicionário do Diabo", uma compilação de aforismos de uma espontaneidade tão cáustica que lhe rendeu o apelido de "Amargo Bierce". "Religião: Uma filha da esperança com o medo, explicando para a ignorância a natureza do incognoscível" - Ambrose Bierce, em "O Dicionário do Diabo" Encrenqueiro, mantinha seu temperamento ríspido sob uma fria máscara de serenidade. Foi baleado na cabeça durante a guerra civil americana e, após recuperar-se, decidiu seu destino num lance de cara-ou-coroa, trocando a carreira militar pela jornalística. Entretanto, seu apetite por aventuras continuou aguçado, trazendo-o ao Brasil no fim do século XIX, antes que finalmente desaparecesse (como um dos seus personagens) enquanto cobria a Revolução Mexicana de Pancho Villa. "Em Bierce, a evocação do horror torna-se pela primeira vez não tanto a prescrição ou a prevenção de Poe e Maupassant, mas uma atmosfera definida e incrivelmente precisa. Palavras tão simples que poderiam levar-nos a atribuí-las às limitações de um escrevinhador assumem um horror diabólico, uma transfiguração nova e imprevista"
Extractions: Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Noun Ambrose Gwinett Bierce - United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914) Ambrose Bierce Bierce author writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Some words with "Ambrose Gwinett Bierce" in the definition: A. E. Burnside
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Extractions: "Bitter Bierce" - American newspaper columnist, satirist, essayist, short-story writer, and novelist, an enigmatic figure, who disappeared in the Mexican Revolution. His end is still a mystery, but he is presumed to have died in the siege of Ojinega on 11 January 1914. Bierce is best-known for his numerous short stories collected in TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS (1891), which show the influence of Edgar Allan Poe. However, Bierce himself was annoyed by comparisons, and as a literary critic he was against realism. When Stephen Crane published his novel about the Civil War, The Red Badge of Co... [ read entire biography Source Petri Liukkonen These essays offer analysis of the author's life and works. Many of them have been submitted by users, and are assigned an Editorial Rating on a scale from one to five stars to assist you in evaluating their worth. See also: Note on Essays Editorial Policy No essays about this author have been added yet. Our database is growing rapidly check back soon!
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