Tác giả: Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (phát âm như "Em-brô-xơ Guy-nét Bia-xơ"; 24 tháng 6 năm 1842 – 1914?) là nhà báo Mỹ viết xã luận, truyện ngắn, và bài châm biếm; ngày nay ông nổi tiếng nhất về An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge và The Devil's Dictionary.

Vì những quan điểm đen tối và nhạo báng, cũng như sự sôi nổi trong vai nhà phê bình, ông được tên hiệu "Bitter Bierce" (Bierce chua cay). Ông có danh tiếng đến độ mà người ta nói rằng ý kiến ông về bài đọc hay bài thơ có thể bắt đầu hay kết thúc sự nghiệp của một tác giả. Trong số những nhà văn trẻ mà ông ủng hộ có nhà thơ George Sterling và nhà tiểu thuyết W. C. Morrow.

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Fantastic Fables

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A Moral Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one. “Down, you base thing!” thundered the Moral Principle, “and let me pass over you!” The Material Interest merely looked in the other’s eyes without saying anything. “Ah,” said the Moral Principle, hesitatingly, “let us draw lots to see which shall retire till the other...

Write It Right

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The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the...

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 the spirit hath walked. And it is attested of those encountering who have lived to speak thereon that a lich so raised up hath no...

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

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Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are...

The Devil's Dictionary

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The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work: "This more reverent title had previously been forced...

The Damned Thing

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By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of the candle to get a stronger light upon it. The shadow of the book would then throw into obscurity a half of the...

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 and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a...

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