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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) est un écrivain américain. Combattant de la guerre de Sécession du côté de l’Union, il est blessé et quitte l’armée pour entreprendre une carrière de journaliste et d’écrivain. Brillant, cruel et imagé, il est l’un des maîtres de la nouvelle américaine.

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Téléchargez le livre :  Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de sécession
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Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de sécession

Ambrose Bierce


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2020-03-18

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Parues dans divers recueils américains dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, traduites dans divers volumes chez Grasset à partir de 1957, ces Histoires macabres et flegmatiques de la guerre de Sécession rassemblent treize nouvelles consacrées à...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fantastic Fables
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A MORAL Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one.

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
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My peculiar relation to the writer of the following narratives is such that I must ask the reader to overlook the absence of explanation as to how they came into my possession. Withal, my knowledge of him is so meager that I should rather not undertake to say if he were...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Parenticide Club
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Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked that it was one of the most ghastly crimes that he had ever been called...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky
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Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of his original and many-faceted genius. Poet, critic, satirist, fun-maker, incomparable...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Can Such Things Be
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For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without...

Editeur : eBooksLib (en)
Parution : 1905-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Present at a Hanging and other Ghost stories
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Ambrose Bierce is a fantastic writer, Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories is a collection of some of his stories classed into three parts, The Ways of Ghosts, Soldier-Folk and Some Haunted Houses.

Editeur : NumiLog
Parution : 2018

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dictionary of the Devil
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In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed-enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang.

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-12-27

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