Ambrosius Bierce

Ambrosius Bierce, vulgo Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, fuit scriptor comicus Americanus et miles exercitus foederalis in bello civili Americano, natus in Meigs comitatu in Ohio 24 Iunii 1842, mortuus in Mexico fere anno 1914.

Ambrosius Bierce, depictus post mortem ab J.H.E. Partington 1928.

Notus est opere magno The Devil's Dictionary, in quo inveniuntur definitiones verborum vulgarium cynicae et satiricae, sicut:

tormentum, -i, n. - instrumentum ad fines nationum rescribendos adhibitum

Scripta

Opera hic numerantur categoriis collecta

Libri

• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874)
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (etiam notus titulo In the Midst of Life) (1891)
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892)
• Can Such Things Be? (1893)
• Fantastic Fables (1899)
• The Devil's Dictionary (1911) (primum editus sub nomine The Cynic's Word Book, 1906)
• Collected Works (1909)
• Write It Right (1909)
• A Horseman in the Sky, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake (1920)

Fabellae

Secundum annum quo publicati

• The Haunted Valley (1871)
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1887)
• One of the Missing (1888)
• The Boarded Window (1891)
• Chickamauga (1891)
• The Eyes of the Panther (1891)
• Haita the Shepherd (1891)
• The Man and the Snake (1891)
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1891)
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
• The Suitable Surroundings (1891)
• A Tough Tussle (1891)
• A Watcher by the Dead (1891)
• An Adventure at Brownville (1893)
• A Baby Tramp (1893)
• Bodies of the Dead (1893)
• The Death of Halpin Frayser (1893)
• The Famous Gilson Bequest (1893)
• John Bartine's Watch (1893)
• The Night-Doings at 'Deadman's' (1893)
• A Psychological Shipwreck (1893)
• The Realm of the Unreal (1893)
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (1893)
• The Damned Thing (1894)
• A Vine on a House (1905)
• The Moonlit Road (1907)

• Beyond the Wall (1909)
• A Diagnosis of Death (1909)
• A Jug of Syrup (1909)
• Moxon's Master (1909)
• Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1909)
• The Stranger (1909)
• The Way of Ghosts (1909)
• The Affair at Coulter's Notch
• An Affair of Outposts
• The Applicant
• The Baptism of Dobsho
• A Bottomless Grave
• The City of the Gone Away
• The Coup de Grace
• Curried Cow
• The Failure of Hope and Wandel
• George Thurston
• A Holy Terror
• A Horseman in the Sky
• The Hypnotist
• An Imperfect Conflagration
• The Ingenious Patriot
• John Mortonson's Funeral
• Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
• Killed at Resaca
• A Lady from Redhorse

• The Little Story
• The Major's Tale
• The Man Out of the Nose
• The Mocking-Bird
• The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
• Mr Swiddler's Flip-Flap
• My Favourite Murder
• Mysterious Disappearances
• Oil of Dog
• One Kind of Officer
• One of Twins
• One Officer, One Man
• One Summer Night
• Parker Adderson, Philosopher
• Perry Chumly's Eclipse
• A Providential Intimation
• The Race at Left Bower
• A Resumed Identity
• A Revolt of the Gods
• Some Haunted Houses
• A Son of the Gods
• The Story of a Conscience
• The Tail of the Sphinx
• Visions of the Night
• The Widower Turmore

Bibliographia

• Carey McWilliams, Ambrose Bierce: A Biography, 1929 (reprinted 1967), Archon Books.
• Richard O'Connor, Ambrose Bierce: a Biography, with illustrations, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

Nexus externi

• Poemata apud PoetryFoundation.org
• Societas appreciationis
• Ambrosio Bierce Coeptum