Célèbre pour son savoureux Dictionnaire du Diable, Bierce fut aussi un nouvelliste prolixe, qui s'essaya au genre fantastique avec brio. Tel Edgar Allan Poe, il manie l'humour noir et le surnaturel dans ce recueil de contes, classique de la littérature. Sépultures profanées, revenants, histoires de fantômes, Bierce s'empare de toutes les thématiques liées à l'horreur ou au fantastique pour en proposer sa version, du comique grand-guignolesque à la sensibilité la plus pure, prouvant la largeur de sa palette et son incontestable génie.

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This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Fiend's Delight (novella + short stories +   poetry)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed   table of contents.
The Fiend's Delight, a compilation of Bierce's articles; essays, stories,   poems and reflection, was published in London in 1873 by John Camden Hotten   under the pseudonym "Dod Grile". This was Bierce's first book when   he lived and wrote in England from 1872 to 1875, contributing to Fun   magazine.
Ambrose Bierce (born June 24, 1842; assumed to have died sometime after   December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story   writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence   at Owl Creek Bridge" and compiled a satirical lexicon The Devil's   Dictionary. His vehemence as a critic, his motto "Nothing matters",   and the sardonic view of human nature that informed his work, all earned him   the nickname "Bitter Bierce".
Despite his reputation as a searing critic, Bierce was known to encourage   younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C.   Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his   stories. His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague   references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of   war.
Content:
Some Fiction.
1. "One More Unfortunate."
2. The Strong Young Man of Colusa.
3. The Glad New Year.
4. The Late Dowling, Senior.
5. "Love's Labour Lost."
6. A Comforter.
7. Little Isaac.
8. The Heels of Her.
9. A Tale of Two Feet.
10. The Scolliver Pig.
11. Mr. Hunker's Mourner.
12. A Bit of Chivalry.
13. The Head of the Family.
14. Deathbed Repentance.
15. The New Church that was not Built.
16. A Tale of the Great Quake.
17. Johnny.
18. The Child's Provider.
19. Boys who Began Wrong.
20. A Kansas Incident.
21. Mr. Grile's Girl.
22. His Railway.
23. Mr. Gish Makes a Present.
24. A Cow-County Pleasantry.
25. The Optimist, and What He Died Of.
26. The Root of Education.
27. Retribution.
28. Margaret the Childless.
29. The Discomfited Demon.
30. The Mistake of a Life.
31. L. S.
32. The Baffled Asian.
Tall Talk.
1. A Call to Dinner.
2. On Death and Immortality.
3. Music-Muscular and Mechanical.
4. The Good Young Man.
5. The Average Parson.
6. Did We Eat One Another?
7. Your Friend's Friend.
8. Le Diable est aux Vaches.
9. Angels and Angles.
10. A Wingless Insect.
11. Pork on the Hoof.
12. The Young Person.
13. A Certain Popular Fallacy.
14. Pastoral Journalism.
15. Mendicity's Mistake.
16. Picnicking considered as a Mistake.
17. Thanksgiving Day.
18. Flogging.
19. Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press.
20. Charity.
21. The Study of Human Nature.
22. Additional Talk-Done in the Country.
Current Journalings.
Obituary Notices.
1. Christians.
2. Pagans.
Musings, Philosophical and Theological.
Laughorisms.
"Items" from the Press of Interior California.
Poesy.
1. Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus.
2. Epitaph on George Francis Train.
3. Jerusalem, Old and New.
4. Communing with Nature.
5. Conservatism and Progress.
6. Inter Arma Silent Leges.
7. Quintessence.
8. Resurgam.

The Fiend´s Delight (novella + short stories + poetry)

Peyton Farquhar, a confederate sympathizer, stands to be hanged for his role in a plot to demolish Owl Creek Bridge. As he awaits death, Farquhar considers the possibility of escape-the chances of slipping his bonds, swimming to safety, and returning to his family. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" recounts the final moments before Farquhar is hanged, exploring the feelings of a man facing his death, and the close relationship between life and death. Known for both its irregular time sequence and its surprising ending, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the most anthologized of Ambrose Bierce's stories. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge - Short Story

Il se passe des choses étranges dans les forêts de virginie, au fond des canyons de la sierra nevada, dans les camps des chercheurs d'or, au sein de la meilleure société de san francisco et même dans la boutique la plus ordinaire d'une bourgade du massachussets.
 Si l'on en croit ambrose bierce, on ne peut même plus se fier à la mort pour faire se tenir tranquilles les gens, qu'on les ait assassinés ou non.  et même chez les vivants, les inventeurs et les médecins vont au-delà des limites de la science, les jumeaux communiquent mystérieusement, les hypnotiseurs ont d'inquiétants pouvoirs. 
Vingt-quatre nouvelles fantastiques, drôles ou terrifiantes, inédites pour la plupart, pour poursuivre la découverte du plus acerbe des humoristes américains.

De telles choses sont-elles possibles ?

Seven American Short Stories

Scepticisme, dérision, causticité, lucidité, telles sont les vertus cardinales - ou les impardonnables travers - du père du dictionnaire du diable qui avait pour devise : "rien n'a d'importance".
 Redoutable et redouté journaliste, dictateur littéraire capable d'établir ou de torpiller une réputation, brillant satiriste - peut-être le meilleur depuis voltaire - mais aussi poète et nouvelliste, ambrose bierce (1842-1914) doit sa place dans la littérature américaine à un remarquable talent de conteur d'histoires aussi noires qu'hallucinées.

Mauvaises pensees

Ambrose Bierce, Le Club des Parenticides Traduction de Marie Picard "Une journée de juin 1872, au petit matin, j'ai tué mon père - cela m'a beaucoup marqué à l'époque. C'était avant mon mariage, alors que j'habitais chez mes parents dans le Wisconsin... " Ambrose Bierce a endossé presque tous les rôles : soldat pendant la guerre de Sécession, douanier en Alabama, chercheur d'or, journaliste à San Francisco, Londres ou Washington, enfin aventurier valétudinaire au Mexique. Il lui en resta une ironie glacée et un sens aigu du grotesque, dont son talent de nouvelliste sut tirer le meilleur parti.

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