Bierce

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noun

1. Ambrose (Gwin·nett) [gwi-, net], 1842–1914?, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.

Bierce

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noun

1. BierceAmbrose (Gwinett)1842?1914MUSWRITING: journalistWRITING: short-story writer Ambrose ( Gwinett ). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)

Example Sentences

The word “Carcosa,” which Chambers borrowed from Ambrose Bierce, and which later showed up in the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

From The Daily Beast

Here he picks his five favorite horror novels, from Ambrose Bierce to Stephen King.

From The Daily Beast

Drabelle writes about all this, but only to brush it aside and insist that Bierce was some sort of morally rigorous truth teller.

From The Daily Beast

So why did Bierce, finally, in 1896, become a populist champion?

From The Daily Beast

But this to Bierce was mostly "journalism, a thing so low that it cannot be mentioned in the same breath with literature."

From Project Gutenberg

A partial answer to both questions is to be found in a certain discord between Bierce and his setting.

From Project Gutenberg

Bierce, paradoxically, combined the bizarre in substance, the severely restrained and compressed in form.

From Project Gutenberg

But to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.

From Project Gutenberg

As a satirist Bierce was the best America has produced,xxiv perhaps the best since Voltaire.

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