World-famous journalist Ambrose Bierce investigates the disappearance of a Hawaiian princess and is plunged headlong into a world of intrigue and mystery surrounding the court of Hawaiian royalty living in San Francisco. By the author of Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades. Reprint.
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
... 1976 Q'rom the novel by Wallace Stegner) M Y s T E R I E s Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyedjacles Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls Ambrose Bierce and ...
"Bierce's fables are distinguished for their biting wit and their cynical reflection of the political and social events of his time.
... Arthur , 144 Can Such Things Be ?, 55 , 204 Briscoe , Sergeant William ( “ A Man Captain , The ( “ The Stranger " ) ... Count Arturo Paulovitch , 288 42 Castro , Cipriano , 304 Brough , Colonel ( " George Thurston " ) , " Cats of ...
The Devil's Dictionary is Ambrose Bierce's most famous book, though it took many years to achieve that status and features a rather convoluted publication history. While editing the “Town Crier” page of the News Letter in San Francisco ...
Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits — a merciless "American Swift" whose literary...
Ambrose Bierce