Celebrated title story plus "The Shot," "The Snowstorm," "The Coffin-Maker," "An Amateur Peasant Girl," and "The Postmaster" -- all fascinating portraits of life in Tsarist Russia by one of that country's greatest writers.
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.
Ambrose Bierce Ann Radcliffe Ben Jonson Charles Lever Émile Zola Ford Madox Ford Geoffrey Chaucer George Gissing George Orwell Guy de Maupassant H. P. Lovecraft Henrik Ibsen Henry David Thoreau Henry Fielding J. M. Barrie James Fenimore ...
Born in Ohio and reared in Indiana , Ambrose Bierce came to California after the Civil War and stayed almost twenty ... most recently The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes ( 1985 ) and Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall ...
In a fifth installment of the series featuring the outspoken newspaperman, Ambrose Bierce and his associate, Tom Redmond, investigate a shooting that has resulted in the death of the star of a famous touring Wild West show, a case involving ...
Born in Ohio and reared in Indiana, Ambrose Bierce came to California after the Civil War and stayed almost ... most recently The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes (1985) and Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall (1998).
... 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 ...
Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific.
Ambrose G. ("Almighty God") Bierce, San Francisco's legendary newspaperman and sometime-sleuth, is hardly surprised to be consulted by William Randolph Hearst when the latter's mistress finds herself photographically compromised. ...
Provides practical advice on planning trip to San Francisco, describes points of interest in each section of the city, and includes information on restaurants, nightspots, and shops.