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His earliest known definition was published in 1867. [6] The first "The Devil's Dictionary" column by Ambrose Bierce, from The Wasp, 5 March 1881, vol. 6 no. 240, page 149. His first try at a multiple-definition essay was titled "Webster Revised". It included definitions of four terms and was published in early 1869. [7]
The essence of the plot was secrecy; the railroads' advocates hoped to get the bill through Congress without any public notice or hearings. When the angered Huntington confronted Bierce on the steps of the Capitol and told Bierce to name his price, Bierce's answer ended up in newspapers nationwide: "My price is one hundred thirty million ...
Chambers had read Bierce's work and borrowed a few additional names from his work, including Hali and Hastur. In Chambers' stories, and within the apocryphal play titled The King in Yellow, which is mentioned several times within them, the city of Carcosa is a mysterious, ancient, and possibly cursed place. The most precise description of its ...
"An Inhabitant of Carcosa" is a short story by American Civil War veteran and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in the San Francisco Newsletter of December 25, 1886 and was later reprinted as part of Bierce's collections Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Can Such Things Be?
Editor Blume shows that Bierce preferred the original sequence of 19 stories for his book and uses Bierce's handwritten notes on his original pasteup to eliminate errors introduced in the printing of the first edition, making this the first corrected edition. 89-page appendix presents Bierce's writings elsewhere relevant to each individual story.
Bierce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1914), American Civil War soldier, wit and writer; Lucius V. Bierce (1801–1876), attorney, five term mayor of Akron, Ohio, Commander-in-chief of the Patriot Army of the West during the Canada Patriot War of 1837-1839
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In 2006, the DVD Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories was released, which contains adaptations of three of Ambrose Bierce's short stories, among them "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" directed by Brian James Egan. The DVD also contains an extended version of the story with more background and detail than the one included in the trilogy.