The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume IV: Shapes of Clay

Ambrose Bierce

Wildside Press LLC, 01‏/06‏/2008 - 372 من الصفحات

Volume 4 of the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (title: "Shapes of Clay") is a facsimile reprint of the 250-copy limited edition of 1910.

المحتوى

• SHAPES OF CLAY: 19
• Bones: 30
• riage: 54
• lombia: 70
• tals: 76
• former: 93
• The Jack of Clubs: 98
• To Bridget: 104
• To a Censor: 110
• A Years Casualties: 118
• A Meeting: 127
• Laus Lucis: 138
• To Oscar Wilde: 144
• An Unmerry Christ: 155
• In Memoriam: 163
• The Cynics Bequest: 169
• Corrected News: 177
• To My Laundress: 183
• Reminded: 189
• To One Across: 194
• To Maude: 200
• The Lords Prayer: 206
• A Career in Letters: 213
• Tempora Mutantur: 219
• Disavowal: 226
• Devil: 254
• Discretion: 266
• A Welcome: 272
• For Tat: 278
• A WhipperIn: 284
• The Genesis of Embar: 291
• An Augury: 298
• Detected: 304
• A Guest: 310
• The Yearly Lie: 317
• One Moods Expression: 326
• A King of Craft: 347
• A Wasted Life: 353
• Aspiration: 359
• tion: 367
• Cooperation: 368
• Sepulture: 376

مقاطع مشهورة

الصفحة 38 - Give thou more or less, as we Shall serve the right or serve the wrong. Confirm our freedom but so long As we are worthy to be free. But when (O, distant be the time!) Majorities in passion draw Insurgent swords to murder Law, And all the land is red with crime...‏

الصفحة 37 - And bends him from his nearer sky. God of my country and my race! So greater than the gods of old— So fairer than the prophets told Who dimly saw and feared thy face,— Who didst but half reveal thy will And gracious ends to their desire, Behind the dawn's advancing fire Thy tender day-beam veiling still,— To whom the unceasing suns belong, And cause is one with consequence,— To whose divine, inclusive sense The moan is blended with the song,— Whose laws, imperfect and unjust, Thy just and...‏

الصفحة 39 - But when (ah, distant be the time!) Majorities in passion draw Insurgent swords to murder Law, And all the land is red with crime; Or — nearer menace! — when the band Of feeble spirits cringe and plead To the gigantic strength of Greed, And fawn upon his iron hand ; — Nay, when the steps to State are worn In hollows by the feet of thieves, And Mammon sits among the sheaves And chuckles while the reapers mourn; Then stay thy miracle! — replace The broken throne, repair the chain, Restore the...‏

نبذة عن المؤلف

Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches. Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution.

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume IV: Shapes of Clay; The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
• المؤلف: Ambrose Bierce
• الناشر: Wildside Press LLC, 2008
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 1434472531, 9781434472533
• عدد الصفحات: 372 من الصفحات