Ambrose Bierce And The Death Of Kings

Author : Oakley M. Hall
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780142001332
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings written by Oakley M. Hall and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compulsively readable mystery, the hero is the historical figure Ambrose Bierce, William Randolph Hearst's star reporter and San Francisco's most celebrated writer at the turn of the 20th century. Intelligent, gripping, and often very funny, this wonderfully tangled tale of murder and mystery is sure to satisfy.

Author : Oakley Hall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520353870
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades written by Oakley Hall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Morton Street Slasher has been leaving the corpses of his victims around San Francisco's Union Square. On the women's naked bodies are spade playing cards. The city's infamous newspaperman, Ambrose Bierce, blames the rash of murders on his old enemy, the Southern Pacific Railroad. A naive reporter at Bierce's Hornet pursues the case, uncovering conspiracy at every turn. In a fast-paced novel that is a combination of murder mystery, historical fiction, and quirky biography, Oakley Hall draws the reader into 1880s San Francisco and the changing world that was California in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Local and state politics, the exploitation of the Chinese, the power of the mining and railroad barons, and San Francisco's colorful history provide a backdrop for this irresistible thriller. The novel's chapters are introduced by appropriate excerpts from Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary and narrated by the young reporter Tom Redmond. Redmond is interested in the murders because of his attraction to a woman threatened by the Slasher, and Bierce encourages him because of his personal vendetta against the Big Four of the Railroad. Bierce's misogyny is an influence as well, which Hall uses to advantage in portraying the enigmatic journalist. Hall knows his territory and his characters well. The sights and smells of late-nineteenth-century California are cleverly evoked, and the story's key players are refreshingly authentic. Bierce brandishes his famed cynicism with all the aplomb of the sharp-eyed, sharp-witted newspaperman he was. Cameo appearances by such California worthies as Ina Coolbrith and Joaquin Miller add to the novel's historical richness. Intelligent, gripping, and often quite funny, Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades will satisfy any reader who craves adventure, mystery, romance, and fine writing.

Author : Oakley M. Hall
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce and the One-eyed Jacks written by Oakley M. Hall and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bierce and his sidekick Tom Redmond follow a trail of murder that leads from a sinister British yachtsman to a photographer of female flesh. Bierce's unraveling sheds a blinding light on parental guilt and fin-de-sicle morality. The third in Hall's Ambrose Bierce series, this is a must-have for fans of Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" and E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks."

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781296963637
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ... written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Fables written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1898 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: In motley: Kings of beasts: Two administrations; Miscellaneous written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In motley: Kings of beasts: Two administrations; Miscellaneous written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chickamauga written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambrose Bierce’s short story, "Chickamauga," scrutinizes American values, specifically, America’s identifying with the natural world. Bierce is critical of the American association with divine destiny, which has manifested itself throughout history in the form of John Winthrop’s “City upon a hill” speech, the notion of the “white man’s burden,” and Manifest Destiny. American history, in the scope of the short story, is one of perceived “rightly” subjugation of others. Bierce satirizes this philosophy by use of the child as a manifestation of American values that are eventually shown to be feeble and weak. Famous works of the author Ambrose Bierce: "A Psychological Shipwreck", "Killed at Resaca",, "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", "One of the Missing", "A Tough Tussle", "An Unfinished Race", "One of Twins", "A Horseman in the Sky", "The Spook House", "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot", "The Man and the Snake", "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "The Realm of the Unreal", "The Boarded Window", "The Secret of Macarger's Gulch", "The Death of Halpin Frayser", "The Damned Thing", "The Eyes of the Panther", "Moxon's Master", "The Moonlit Road", "Beyond the Wall".

Author : Oakley Hall
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312357621
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and War in California written by Oakley Hall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having come of age in World War II California only to lose his classmates to the war, Payton Daltrey explores recurring themes throughout the rest of his life as he experiences true love, the horrors of Japanese internment camps, and the state's jazz days. By the author of Warlock. 20,000 first printing.