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Ambrose Bierce comenzó a publicar las primeras voces de este dilatado diccionario en un periódo, el san francisco news letter, en 1875 bajo el nombre de el diccionario del demonio. Seis años más tarde continuo completando y mejoro la publicacion. su intencion era sarcastica anes que humoristica y sus armas mas potentes, la burla grotesca, la inventiva sadica y el humor negro. la religion, el matrimonio, el amor, el idealismo, el comercio o la educacion son algunos de los temas que recorren sus paginas. con estas definiciones, Bierce pretendia iluminar a aquellos que escogen el vino seco al dulce, la razon al sentimiento o el ingenio al humor. En definitiva, todos estamos invitados a visitar estas estancias.

En El Diccionario del Diablo Ambrose Bierce afila las armas del ingenio para ofrecernos una burla total y despiadada del género humano, de sus honorables instituciones, de sus presupuestos lógicos -que conforman el tan peregrino "sentido comun"-, de sus ideas mas conspicuas, de sus nimias creencias. Bierce, maestro del humor negro, se convierte en diabolico lexicografo a fin de provocar una rebelion contra las ideas recibidas, contra las ideas reinantes, contra las ideas que se establecen impunemente...

Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories written by Ambrose Bierce. Published in 1891, the 26 stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. His famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is included in this collection.

Una cuidada y original compilación de 99 fábulas fantásticas en la que desfilan políticos de ambición insaciable, médicos estafadores, religiosos impíos, poetas ripiosos, jueces desequilibrados, lunáticos de toda suerte, aparte de muy humanos leones, canguros, tortugas... e incluso objetos y conceptos abstractos. Seleccionadas y traducidas por Marcial Souto, estas exquisitas fabulas son ilustradas con maestria por Carlos Nine, el interprete perfecto para la pluma afilada y precisa de Bierce.

"Can Such Things Be?" is a collection of short stories by Ambrose Bierce, whose first edition appeared in 1893.24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. "Can Such Things Be?" implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time.

Ambrose Bierce es uno de los más célebres y cínicos escritores de la literatura norteamericana. El diccionario del diablo es ya un clásico universal, conocido por su despiadado ingenio cáustico, cuyas puas van dirigidas a la politica, los negocios, la religion, la literatura y las artes. En este mordaz diccionario de epigramas, que el autor fue perfeccionando a lo largo de treinta años, Bierce deja en evidencia la estupidez, intolerancia y falsedad de la sociedad de su tiempo. La edicion que presentamos es una seleccion de las definiciones de mas vigencia para un lector actual, acompañadas de las viñetas de Alberto Montt, dibujante chileno conocido por sus ilustraciones satiricas.

Ambrose Bierce, célebre por su humor negro, es uno de esos escritores inclasificables que uno admira por su talento y mordacidad. El diccionario del diablo, su obra más reconocida, es ya un clásico universal, famoso por su despiadado ingenio caustico, que dirige corrosivas andanadas a la politica, las finanzas, la religion, la literatura, las artes y a la especie humana en general.En esta coleccion de definiciones, a modo de entradas de un diccionario luciferino e irreverente que el autor fue perfeccionando a lo largo de treinta años, Bierce suministra con maestria su veneno y deja en evidencia la estupidez, intolerancia y falsedad de la sociedad de su tiempo, demostrando, una vez mas, el poder desacralizador de la risa. La edicion que presentamos es una seleccion de las definiciones de mas vigencia para un lector actual, acompañadas de las viñetas de Alberto Montt, dibujante chileno conocido por sus ilustraciones satiricas.

On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman, but Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous sympathy with her, and in defiance of the community and his superiors, he starts spending time alone with her. But when her virtue is corrupted by an impetuous young man, the stage is set for a battle between heart, mind, body, spirit, the sins of the past, and redemption. Allegedly a rewriting from a lost German original, Ambrose Bierce's 1892 novel reads as a seamless, almost folktale-like masterpiece.

In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed—enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean Eng

Heredero literario de Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne y Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce se sitúa al lado de Lovecraft y Maupassant en la galería de los ilustres autores del terror. Maestro absoluto en la recreación de atmósferas inquietantes, hace estallar imprevistamente un horror físico, fascinante y brutal.

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: El Diccionario del Diablo es una recopilación satírica de 998 definiciones corrosivas escrito de 1881 a 1906 por Ambrose Bierce.Inicialmente fue publicado en fragmentos en diversos periodicos durante mas de veinte años. Al finalizar, en 1911, se recopilo una version completa. El contenido buscaba diversos argumentos escritos a modo satirico.1 El libro fue conocido desde la Guerra de Secesion.Su primera traduccion francesa data de 1955. Fue traducido por Jacques Papy, e incluye un prefacio de Jean Cocteau. Actualmente, la traduccion francesa mas popular es la de Bernard Salle, a partir de la edicion definitiva de 1911, que data de 1989.

The writer of these pages is not foolish enough to suppose that he can escape strong and bitter condemnation for his utterances. On this score he is not disposed to be greatly troubled; and for these reasons: Firstlyhe feels that he is performing a duty; secondlyhe is certain that his sentiments will be endorsed by hundreds upon whose opinion he sets great value; thirdlyhe relieves his mind of a burden that has oppressed it for many years; and fourthlyas is evident upon the face of these pageshe is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism. Nevertheless he would be apostate to his self-appointed mission if he invited censure by unseemly defiance of those who must read and pass judgment upon his work. While, therefore, he does not desire to invoke the leniency of the professional critic or the casual reader, he does desire to justify the position he has taken as far as may be consistent with good taste.It will doubtless be asserted by many: That the writer is a "bigoted parson," whose puritanical and illiberal ideas concerning matters of which he has no personal experience belong to an age that is happily passed. On the contrary, he is a man of the world, who has mixed much in society both in the old world and the new, and who knows whereof he affirms.That he is, for some reason, unable to partake of the amusement he condemns, and is therefore jealous of those more fortunate than himself. Wrong again. He has drunk deeply of the cup he warns others to avoid; and has better opportunities than the generality of men to continue the draught if he found it to his taste.That he publishes from motives of private malice. Private maliceno. Malice of a certain kind, yes. Malice against those who should know better than to abuse the rights of hospitality by making a bawdy-house of their hosts dwelling.But the principal objection will doubtless refer to the plain language used.

The matter of which this volume is composed appeared originally in the columns of "FUN," when the wisdom of the Fables and the truth of the Tales tended to wholesomely diminish the levity of that jocund sheet. Their publication in a new form would seem to be a fitting occasion to say something as to their merit.Homers "Iliad," it will be remembered, was but imperfectly appreciated by Homers contemporaries. Miltons "Paradise Lost" was so lightly regarded when first written, that the author received but twenty-five pounds for it. Ben Jonson was for some time blind to the beauties of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare himself had but small esteem for his own work.Appearing each week in "FUN," these Fables and Tales very soon attracted the notice of the Editor, who was frank enough to say, afterward, that when he accepted the manuscript he did not quite perceive the quality of it. The printers, too, into whose hands it came, have since admitted that for some days they felt very little interest in it, and could not even make out what it was all about. When to these evidences I add the confession that at first I did not myself observe anything extraordinary in my work, I think I need say no more: the discerning public will note the parallel, and my modesty be spared the necessity of making an ass of itself.