Dans Morts violentes, il n'y a pas de fantômes ou de phénomènes anormaux, mais une exploration clinique de la réalité la plus crue, dont l'issue est l'insoutenable horreur de la mort. À travers les cauchemars de la guerre de Sécession, qui valent bien ceux d'Edgar Poe, Bierce porte la short story à son plus haut degré de perfection et s'affirme comme l'un des précurseurs de la littérature américaine du XXe siècle.

Morts Violentes

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Sa participation à la guerre civile américaine le convertit à une forme de scepticisme teinté de misanthropie qui ne fit que se renforcer au fil du temps. Plus tard, son métier de journaliste acheva de le débarrasser de ses dernières illusions. Une conscience aussi vive de l’hypocrisie et la bêtise humaines devait naturellement l’amener sur le terrain de l’humour, du grotesque et du macabre. Parodier les Fables d’Ésope, détourner le plus célèbre des esclaves phrygiens pour mieux défendre les principes stoïciens à la source de ses fables, permet à Bierce de joindre sa voix à celles des grands moralistes du passé. Qui aurait cru que la fable connaîtrait une seconde jeunesse au Far West ? Sans doute le temps est-il venu de redécouvrir ses oeuvres de jeunesse sinon pour leur virtuosité littéraire, du moins pour leur humour hyperbolique, leur caractère transgressif et leur merveilleuse liberté de ton.

Les Fables de Zambri

William Harker is the only witness to the death of his friend, Hugh Morgan. Morgan's body suggests that he has died traumatically, but when Harker tries to explain what he saw of his friend's last moments, the men in charge of determining Morgan's cause of death find his testimony too bizarre to be true. Written by Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing" is a story of the paranormal that was once loosely adapted for an episode of the television series Masters of Horror. 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.

The Damned Thing - Short Story

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce" is formatted   for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This ebook is from the Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Epigram is a   short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or   acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. 
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914?) was an American satirist, critic,   poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories   often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. He spoke out against   oppression and supported civil and religious freedoms. He also wrote numerous   Civil War stories from first-hand experience. Many of his works are ranked   among other esteemed American authors' like Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane   and Mark Twain.

Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

When Irene Marlowe refuses a marriage proposal from the man she loves, he demands she tell him her reasons why. Irene indulges him by telling the tale of her tragic family history, speaking of the glowing eyes of a panther that have caused her family only sorrow. 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.

The Eyes Of The Panther - Short Story

Dans ces douze contes, Ambrose Bierce a oublié son cynisme et sa misanthropie pour laisser la place à un sens profond de la misère humaine, une étude subtile du mécanisme de la peur, une incursion troublante dans le royaume du surnaturel. Ambrose Bierce compte au nombre de ceux pour lesquels écrire est un art difficile et qui mérite tous nos soins. Ce fossoyeur impénitent, ce familier de la mort, ce compagnon des ombres, est un des derniers classiques de la littérature mondiale.

Contes noirs

This short story collection by Ambrose Bierce has all of the following stories: A Shipwreckollection, The Captain of "The Camel," The Man Overboard, A Cargo of Cat, Epigrams Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 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." Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style. He wrote in a variety of literary genres. His short stories are held among the best of the 19th century, providing a popular following based on his roots. He wrote realistically of the terrible things he had seen in the war in such stories as "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "The Boarded Window," "Killed at Resaca," and "Chickamauga." In addition to his ghost and war stories, he also published several volumes of poetry. His Fantastic Fables anticipated the ironic style of grotesquerie that became a more common genre in the 20th century.

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