Cuentos inquietantes ambrose bierce biography

  • Birthdate: 24 June 1842; Deathdate: 1914; Language: English; pages: ambrosebierce.org, biercephile.com, Books and Writers, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, IMDB.
  • The informative sardonic view of human nature alongside his vehemence as a critic with his motto, "nothing matters," earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce.".
  • Los ojos de la pantera y otros relatos de terror de Ambrose Bierce son un conjunto de once relatos los cuales reflejan sombrías escenas cuyos personajes.

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    About the Author

    Edith Wharton was a woman of extreme contrasts; brought up to be a leisured aristocrat, she was also dedicated to her career as a writer. She wrote novels of manners about the old New York society from which she came, but her attitude was consistently critical. Her irony and her satiric touches, as show more well as her insight into human character, continue to appeal to readers today. As a child, Wharton funnen refuge from the demands of her mother's social world in her father's library and in making up stories. Her marriage at age 23 to Edward ("Teddy") Wharton seemed to confirm her place in the conventional role of wealthy society woman, but she became increasingly dissatisfied with the "mundanities" of her marriage and turned to writing, which drew her into an intellectual community and strengthened her sense of self. After publishing two collections of short stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), she wrote her first novel, The V

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    The present entry reproduces the English translation, by Elizabeth Polli, of the essay originally written in Spanish «De Madre, elegía contemporánea”, published in the monography entitled  Beatriz Ruibal. Madre. Madrid, Varasek, 2014, pp. 7-11; pp. 116-118 for the English translation. On

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    The present entry reproduces the English translation, by Elizabeth Polli, of the essay originally written in Spanish «De Madre, elegía contemporánea”, published in the monography entitled  Beatriz Ruibal. Madre. Madrid, Varasek, 2014, pp. 7-11; pp. 116-118 for the English translation. On

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    • Author: Ambrose Bierce Author Record # 1960
    • Legal Name: Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
    • Birthplace: Horse Cave Creek, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
    • Birthdate: 24 June 1842
    • Deathdate: 1914
    • Language: English
    • Webpages:ambrosebierce.org, biercephile.com, Books and Writers, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, IMDB, Library of Congress, LibraryThing, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
    • Used These Alternate Names:

      アンブローズ・ビアス?Anburōzu Biasu
      Anburoozu Biasu

      , Ambrose G. Bierce, Ambrosius Bierce, Ambroce Bierce, Embrouz Birs, Dod Grile, H. T. P.

    • Note: See also the biography of this author by Richard O'Connor.

    • Additional Bibliographic Comments:Author:Ambrose Bierce
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