A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce

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Ohio State University Press, 2003 - 258 páginas
"The binding thread throughout this edited collection of Ambrose Bierce's letters is the argument that Bierce has too often vilified as a cynical misanthrope. Joshi and Schultz believe that Bierce's human side has been ignored by scholars, and they work here to rectify this oversight. The importance of this collection is underscored by the fact that no collection of Bierce's letters has been published since 1922. This selection represents a sampling of nearly one-half million words of Bierce's correspondence, which Joshi and Schultz are the first to gather and transcribe." "The letters reveal many sides of Bierce that he deliberately concealed in his literary work: the caring father who keenly felt the deaths of his two sons and took constant interest in the welfare of his only daughter; the literary giant of San Francisco who gathered around him a substantial cadre of disciples whose work he encouraged and meticulously criticized; the vigorous castigator of chicanery, hypocrisy, and injustice wherever he saw it; and the author of coyly flirtatious letters to a number of female correspondents. For the first time, a well-rounded picture of Bierce the man and writer emerges in his own words. The volume ends chillingly with Bierce's last surviving letter, written from Chihuahua, Mexico, on December 26, 1913, which concludes: "As for me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination." Bierce was never heard from again." "The letters have been scrupulously edited from manuscript sources and exhaustively annotated to elucidate obscure historical, literary, and other references."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
 

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To Bret Harte December 1870
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To John H Carmany February 1871?
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To John H Carmany 15 March 1871
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To Timothy H Rearden 8 January 1872
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 29 December 1872
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 16 March 1873
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 28 September 1873
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 22 November 1873
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To S S Chamberlain 22 March 1908
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To S O Howes 24 March 1908
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To William Randolph Hearst 30 March 1908
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To Herman Scheffauer 31 March 1908
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To Walter Neale 28 April 1908
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To George Sterling 8 May 1908
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To William Randolph Hearst 18 May 1908
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To William Randolph Hearst 23 May 1908
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To Charles Warren Stoddard January 1874?
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 26 April 1874
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 4 July 1874
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To Charles Warren Stoddard 2 June 1875
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To Laura Bierce 13 February 1876
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To Laura Bierce 30 April 1876
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To Helen Bierce 2 April 1885
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To John H Boalt 16 April 1885
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To Sergt Abe Dills 13 August 1887
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To Helen Bierce September 1890?
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To Ella Sterling Cummins 13 March 1892
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To Blanche Partington 31 July 1892
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To Blanche Partington 15 August 1892
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To Blanche Partington 17 August 1892
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To Blanche Partington 28 September 1892
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To Blanche Partington 25 December 1892
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To Blanche Partington 9 January 1893
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To Gustav Adolphe Danziger 1 February 1893
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To Blanche Partington 5 February 1893
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To Gustav Adolphe Danziger 11 February 1893
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To James Tufts 16 April 1893
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To Percival Pollard 22 April 1893
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To Blanche Partington 26 April 1893
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To Percival Pollard 20 July 1893
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To Stone Kimball 7 November 1893
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To Stone Kimball 4 December 1893
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To George Sterling 15 March 1902
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To Herman Scheffauer 2 July 1902
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To George Sterling 6 May 1906
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To Herman Scheffauer 4 August 1903
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To George Sterling 11 June 1906
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To William Randolph Hearst 12 October 1906
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To Perriton Maxwell 23 November 1906
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To S O Howes 19 February 1907
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To George Sterling 21 February 1907
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To George Sterling 11 June 1907
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To William Randolph Hearst 8 July 1907
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To William Randolph Hearst 13 July 1907
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To George Sterling 17 August 1907
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To George Sterling 7 September 1907
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To Herman Scheffauer 30 September 1907
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To W C Morrow 9 October 1907
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To Robert H Davis 13 October 1907
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To James D Blake 29 October 1907?
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To Helen Bierce Cowden 14 November 1907
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To S O Howes 30 November 1907 1 December 1907
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To Walter Neale 7 June 1908
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To George Sterling 11 July 1908
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To George Sterling 14 August 1908
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To George Sterling 6 November 1908
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To Herman Scheffauer 10 January 1909
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To William Randolph Hearst 7 March 1909
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To George dUtassy 23 March 1909
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To Harry Cowden 8 August 1909
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To S O Howes 6 September 1909
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To George Sterling 29 January 1910
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To S O Howes 7 March 1910
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To George Sterling 7 March 1910
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To Walter Neale 24 May 1910
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To Walter Neale 15 July 1910
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To George Sterling 1 September 1910
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To William E Connelley 4 October 1910
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To Lora Bierce 29 November 1910
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To George Sterling 15 February 1911
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To Ruth Robertson 1 March 1911
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To Colonel Archibald Gracie 9 March 1911
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To Walter Neale 22 March 1911
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To Samuel Loveman 28 May 1911
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To George Sterling 31 July 1911
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To S O Howes 17 September 1911
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To George Sterling 29 September 1911
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To Walter Neale 21 October 1911
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To George Sterling 16 November 1911
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To Mrs Percival Pollard 17 December 1911
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To Walter Neale 3 January 1912
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To George Sterling 25 April 1912
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To Walter Neale 22 May 1912
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To S O Howes 14 June 1912
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To Walter Neale 2 July 1912
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To the Editor of Town Talk 6 August 1912
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To George Sterling 9 September 1912
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To Blanche Partington 8 November 1912
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To Walter Neale 8 January 1913
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To Walter Neale 23 January 1913
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To Helen Bierce Cowden 27 January 1913
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To H L Mencken 21 April 1913
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To Willard Huntington Wright 9 May 1913
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To Amy L Wells 13 June 1913
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To Amy L Wells 10 July 1913
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To Amy L Wells 5 August 1913
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To Helen Bierce Cowden 10 September 1913
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To Eleanor Vore Sickler 21 September 1913
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To Amy L Wells 21 September 1913
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To Lora Bierce 1 October 1913
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To Helen Bierce Cowden 4 November 1913
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To Robert H Davis 12 October 1904
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To John OHara Cosgrave 19 November 1905
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Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches. Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution.

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