検索キーワード： "Ambrose Bierce" 短編小説

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce is a gripping short story that masterfully blends psychological suspense with the brutal realities of war. Set during the American Civil War, the narrative follows Peyton Farquhar, a Southern planter condemned to hang from a railroad bridge for attempting to sabotage Union forces. As the noose tightens, Farquhar experiences a vivid and surreal escape that blurs the line between illusion and reality.

Ambrose Bierce brings to life the heart rendering stories of divided loyalties, splitting families, states, countries, and individuals. He writes of the glory in beginning and savagery in the doing. Here is a moving anti-war series of stories if ever there was one. A must read by all students of American History and Literature, though perhaps best understood by older adults.

Award-winning audiobook narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge a short story by Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending.

This is a story from The Moonlit Road collection. These five 19th-century ghost stories from both sides of the Atlantic provide some of the best chills in the genre. Ambrose Bierce is well-known, but "To Let" by B. M. Croker and "The Upper Berth" also provide moments to tingle the spine, as does "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances" by Le Fanu. This collection, which is further enhanced by suitably chilling music, was originally released under the title Classic Chilling Tales 3.

This is a story from the Classic American Short Stories collection.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’. Success and further works including poetry followed.

Jerome Searing, soldado raso y valiente explorador de los federales, tendrá una misión cuyo fin no hubiera podido imaginar. Además de los evidentes méritos narrativos del cuento, el título de Uno de los desaparecidos prefigura el final de su autor, Ambrose Bierce, quien desapareció en México, en 1913, sin dejar rastros.

Bierce está a la altura de Poe, Lovecraft y Maupassant en el panteón de ilustres del género terrorífico. Fue un maestro en la recreación de tensas atmósferas desasosegantes en medio de las cuales detona repentinamente un horror "físico", absorbente y feroz.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce nació el 24 de junio de 1842 en Ohio, Estados Unidos. De padres granjeros, Ambrose fue el décimo de 13 hijos. Luchó en la Guerra Civil Estadounidense, llegando al grado de comandante.

A federal officer's best friend is mortally wounded but still alive and suffering terribly. He just euthanized an injured horse, but the rules are quite different and specific regarding humans. They are alone with no sign of help for the dying man. What to do?

As in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Ambrose Bierce speculates on a person's final thoughts at the moment of death. An instant becomes a 30-minute short story. Bierce was an infantry officer in the Civil War and witnessed the deaths of many and no doubt contemplated his own; thus the fatalistic basis of much of his writing.

A friend of the narrator, a very brave but sometimes reckless lieutenant, is killed in action. The narrator becomes the possessor of a letter that he returns to the sender after the war is over. He finds the sender of the letter to be a very beautiful, sophisticated, but self-centered woman. So self-centered one wonders if she understands the meaning of the narrator's last words to her.

It's the American Civil War, two men and a horse on a high precipice. War requires ordinary men to make extraordinary decisions. This was particularly true in the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce a veteran of that war spent much of the rest of his life writing short stories about it. This is one of his best narrated by award-winning audiobook narrator and producer Mike Vendetti.

Ambrose Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, and satirist, who wrote many chilling stories of the supernatural. "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" is one of his best.

A chilling tale of terror.

Prima di partire per il Messico, dal quale non avrebbe fatto ritorno, "Bitter" Bierce lasciò dietro di sé la fama di intransigente critico dei suoi tempi e più di novanta racconti, perfetta espressione del suo geniro satirico. Questa raccolta contiene: "Accadde al ponte di Owl Creek" e "Il maestro di Muxon". Clifton Fadiman dice di lui: "Rimarrà per sempre uno dei più grandi testimoni, uno dei critici più intransigenti, colui che ha dato la forma definitiva a più di un genere letterario". Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) è un autore capitale della letteratura americana.

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others.

Bierce está a la altura de Poe, Lovecraft y Maupassant en el panteón de ilustres del género terrorífico. Fue un maestro en la recreación de tensas atmósferas desasosegantes en medio de las cuales detona repentinamente un horror «físico», absorbente y feroz.

Ambrose Bierce left behind a nasty reputation and more than 90 short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. This volume of selected stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time.

Escritor satírico y periodista estadounidense,nacido en Ohio. Prestó sus servicios en el ejército de la Unión durante la Guerra Civil estadounidense (1861 - 1865). Bierce se estableció en San Francisco, donde escribió ingeniosos artículos políticos y una columna para el periódico News-Letter. En 1868 se convirtió en su editor