The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1) - Rilegato

Bierce, Ambrose

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ISBN 10: 159818007X ISBN 13: 9781598180077

Casa editrice: Alan Rodgers Books, 2005

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From Ashes of the Beacon:

An Historical Monograph Written in 4930

The ancient Americans were a composite people; their blood was a blend of all the strains known in their time. Their government, while they had one, being merely a loose and mutable expression of the desires and caprices of the majority—that is to say, of the ignorant, restless and reckless—gave the freest rein and play to all the primal instincts and elemental passions of the race. In so far and for so long as it had any restraining force, it was only the restraint of the present over the power of the past—that of a new habit over an old and insistent tendency ever seeking expression in large liberties and indulgences impatient of control. In the history of that unhappy people, therefore, we see unveiled the workings of the human will in its most lawless state, without fear of authority or care of consequence. Nothing could be more instructive.

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) 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".

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• Editore: Alan Rodgers Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 159818007X
• ISBN 13: 9781598180077
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 216