A dentist, wrote Ambrose Bierce, was “a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.” Politeness, “the most acceptable hypocrisy.” A year, a “period of three ...

Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is one of the most famous in all of American literature. The story follows a wealthy slave owner about to be hanged during the ...

Ebenezer Scrooge took only one night to change his tune from “Bah! Humbug!” to “God bless us, every one!” Ambrose Bierce was made of sterner stuff. He reviled the holiday (and just about everything ...

A professor, who has written a book on Ambrose Bierce, and is considered an expert on the subject, suddenly has doubt cast upon his work. An old man turns up at his home, saying he is Ambrose Bierce ...

Buried on Page 24 of The Indianapolis News on Sept. 19, 1914, was the headline: "INDIANA AUTHOR LAST HEARD FROM IN MEXICO." Ambrose Bierce, a veteran of the Civil War and former journalist who would ...

AMBROSE BIERCE (349 pp.) —Paul Fatout—University of Oklahoma ($4). In the late 1860s, two things were sure to make San Franciscans sit up and take notice. One was easy gold, the other an acid writing ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttsfn.2 Many know him, but no one knows very much about him. This might have been said of Ambrose Bierce in his own time ...