MARC record from Internet Archive

LEADER: 06209cam a2200589 a 4500
001 2010942020
003 DLC
005 20141120075525.0
008 101201s2011 nyu b 000 mdeng d
010 $a 2010942020
020 $a9781598531022
020 $a1598531026
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn701019592
040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$dYDXCP$dNZD$dJBU$dVKC$dTHM$dBWX$dRRR$dWIM$dIBI$dGPI$dIXA$dIAD$dCWS$dIAD$dDEBBG$dBDX$dCDX$dMQY$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS1097$b.A6 2011b
082 04 $a813.4$223
084 $aHT 3701$2rvk
100 1 $aBierce, Ambrose,$d1842-1914?
240 10 $aWorks.$kSelections.$f2011
245 14 $aThe devil's dictionary, tales, & memoirs /$cAmbrose Bierce ; S.T. Joshi, editor.
246 30 $aAmbrose Bierce :$bThe devil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs
246 3 $aDevil's dictionary, tales, and memoirs
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bLibrary of America :$bDistributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA),$cc2011.
300 $aix, 880 p. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aThe Library of America ;$v219
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tIn the midst of life (Tales of soldiers and civilians).$gSoldiers.$tA horseman in the sky ;$tAn occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ;$tChickamauga ;$tA son of the gods ;$tOne of the missing ;$tKilled at Resaca ;$tThe affair at Coulter's Notch ;$tThe coup de grâce ;$tParker Adderson, philosopher ;$tAn affair of outposts ;$tThe story of a conscience ;$tOne kind of officer ;$tOne officer, one man ;$tGeorge Thurston ;$tThe mocking-bird --$gCivilians.$tThe man out of the nose ;$tAn adventure at Brownville ;$tThe famous Gilson bequest ;$tThe applicant ;$tA watcher by the dead ;$tThe man and the snake ;$tA holy terror ;$tThe suitable surroundings ;$tThe boarded window ;$tA lady from Redhorse ;$tThe eyes of the panther --
505 80 $tCan such things be?$tThe death of Halpin Frayser ;$tThe secret of Macarger's Gulch ;$tOne summer night ;$tThe moonlit road ;$tA diagnosis of death ;$tMoxon's master ;$tA tough tussle ;$tOne of twins ;$tThe haunted valley ;$tA jug of sirup ;$tStaley Fleming's hallucination ;$tA resumed identity ;$tA baby tramp ;$tThe night-doings at "Deadman's" ;$tBeyond the wall ;$tA psychological shipwreck ;$tThe middle toe of the right foot ;$tJohn Mortonson's funeral ;$tThe realm of the unreal ;$tJohn Bartine's watch ;$tThe damned thing ;$tHaïta the shepherd ;$tAn inhabitant of Carcosa ;$tThe stranger --$gThe way of ghosts.$tPresent at a hanging ;$tA cold greeting ;$tA wireless message ;$tAn arrest --$gSoldier folk.$tA man with two lives ;$tThree and one are one ;$tA baffled ambuscade ;$tTwo military executions --$gSome haunted houses.$tThe isle of pines ;$tA fruitless assignment ;$tA vine on a house ;$tAt old man Eckert's ;$tThe spook house ;$tThe other lodgers ;$tThe thing at Nolan --$t"Mysterious disappearances".$tThe difficulty of crossing a field ;$tAn unfinished race ;$tCharles Ashmore's trail --
505 80 $tThe Devil's dictionary --
505 80 $tBits of autobiography.$tOn a mountain ;$tWhat I saw of Shiloh ;$tA little of Chickamauga ;$tThe crime at Pickett's Mill ;$tFour days in Dixie ;$tWhat occurred at Franklin ;$t'Way down in Alabam' ;$tWorking for an Empress ;$tAcross the plains ;$tThe mirage ;$tA sole survivor --
505 80 $tSelected stories.$tMrs. Dennison's head ;$tThe man overboard ;$tJupiter Doke, Brigadier-General ;$tA bottomless grave ;$tFor the Ahkhoond ;$tMy favorite murder ;$tOil of dog ;$tAshes of the beacon.
520 $aA veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance --$cSource other than Library of Congress.
650 0 $aEnglish language$vDictionaries$vHumor.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xSemantics$vHumor.
650 0 $aVocabulary$vHumor.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vFiction.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPersonal narratives.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y19th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography.
700 1 $aJoshi, S. T.,$d1958-
700 12 $aBierce, Ambrose,$d1842-1914?$tTales of soldiers and civilians.
700 12 $aBierce, Ambrose,$d1842-1914?$tCan such things be?
700 12 $aBierce, Ambrose,$d1842-1914?$tDevil's dictionary.
700 12 $aBierce, Ambrose,$d1842-1914?$tBits of autobiography.
700 12 $aBierce, Ambrose,$d1842-1914?$tShort stories.$kSelections.
830 0 $aLibrary of America ;$v219.
856 $uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024404502&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA$zInhaltsverzeichnis
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2010942020-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2010942020-d.html