One of the Missing

Ambrose Bierce

Description

The story Jerome Searing, a brave, intelligent and deadly marksmen and how he risks all to close on the enemy. One of Bierce's finest short stories.

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 31 mars 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781473369948
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

One of the Missing
By
Ambrose Bierce
First published in the San Francisco
Examiner, March 11, 1888.
Included in Tales of Soldiers
and Civilians (1891).


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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. He was the tenth of thirteen children, and left home aged fifteen to become a ‘printer’s devil’ (a printing apprentice) at a small Ohio newspaper. Bierce fought in the American Civil War, working as a topographical engineer and even reaching the rank of brevet major before resigning from the Army to settle in San Francisco. During the 1870s and 1880s, he worked on a variety of newspapers, even spending three years in England, and famously helped quash a bill which would have put the cost of the First Transcontinental Railroad on the American people instead of the railroad companies.
Through his newspaper output – including one of the first regular columns in William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner – Bierce developed a famous reputation for searing criticism and acerbic wit, even earning the nickname ‘Bitter Bierce’. His satirical reference book, The Devil’s Dictionary , which lampooned cant and political doublespeak – “Corporation (n.) An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility”
– remains widely read today. However, Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction. Indeed, many of his short stories – such as ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, ‘The Boarded Window’, ‘Killed at Resaca’ and ‘Chickamauga’, all of which are penned in ‘Pure English’ – are held among the best of the 19th century. Bierce’s writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time.