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<p><p>a Lively And Compelling Portrait Of One Of The Most Acerbic And Distinctive Voices In American Literature, <b>ambrose Bierce&#58; Alone In Bad Company</b> Is A Clear-eyed But Sympathetic Account Of A Complex Individual At Odds With His Country, His Family, His Times, And Himself. <br> The Only American Writer Of Any Stature To Fight In And Survive The Civil War, Bierce Discovered In The Conflict A Bitter Confirmation Of His Darkest Assumptions About Man And His Nature. Profoundly Disillusioned, Bierce Spent The Next Fifty Years Struggling To Disabuse His Fellow Americans Of Their Own Cherished Ideals&#151;be They Romantic, Religious, Or Political. His Groundbreaking Short Stories Of The War, Including His Most Famous Work, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge, Have Had A Lasting Influence On Every Subsequent American Author Dealing With War. And The Heartless, Hilarious Aphorisms In His Caustic Lexicon <b>the Devil's Dictionary</b> Have Entered, Often Uncredited, Our National Consciousness.<br> In This Insightful, Critically Acclaimed Biography, The First Comprehensive Study In Almost Fifty Years, Roy Morris, Jr., Accounts For Both The Influential Art That Ambrose Bierce Made Fr

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Author

Charles River Editors

Publisher

Oxford University Press on Demand

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195126280

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.04 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14