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Ambrose Bierce é um escritor e jornalista americano, não muito conhecido em França. É conhecido principalmente como o autor do Dicionário do Diabo e de contos de humor negro, muitas vezes pertencentes ao género fantasia. Bierce escreveu quase uma centena de contos, muito frequentemente sobre a morte do indivíduo e o seu absurdo. Nomeadamente os contos da colecção Morts violentes, uma colecção de contos curtos sobre os horrores da Guerra Civil.

Familiarize-se com quatro filósofos menos conhecidos através de uma cuidadosa selecção de 300 citações, introduzindo as suas ideias e delineando com clareza a estrutura do seu trabalho. Descubra novos aspectos ou aprofunde-se nos pensamentos de Gaston Bachelard, Emil Cioran, Ambrose Bierce, Epictetus, para expandir a sua mente e conhecimento sobre a nossa cultura.

Familiarize-se com alguns dos mais importantes filósofos do século XX através de uma cuidadosa selecção de 500 citações, introduzindo as suas principais ideias e delineando com clareza a estrutura do seu trabalho. Descubra novos aspectos ou aprofunde-se nos pensamentos de Emil Cioran, Gaston Bachelard, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Ambrose Bierce, para expandir a sua mente e conhecimento sobre a nossa cultura.

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. Lives so interwoven that the severing or loss of one life leaves the other weakened, unable to function for some time. Recovery comes in a myriad of forms but is usually debilitating, slow and, in the end, we are not as whole as we once were.It is a subject that authors return to again and again.

Case infestate da fantasmi, morti misteriose, voci di defunti, queste ed altre cose terrifiche ed inquietanti popolano i racconti contenuti in questo audiolibro tratto dall'opera di uno degli autori americani dalla fantasia più fervida nel genere horror/fantastico. Ispirato dai molti racconti e affidandosi alla versatilità della propria voce, l'attore Massimo D'Onofrio si è divertito a dar voce diversa ad ogni narratore di ciascuna singola storia creando un'avvincente decorso narrativo che incuriosisce e... spaventa!

Il maestro di Moxon è un racconto breve ma ricco di suggestioni. Protagonisti sono Moxon, inventore e filosofo dilettante, e la sua creatura meccanica: un automa giocatore di scacchi. Lo spunto narrativo parte dal saggio di E. A. Poe Il giocatore di scacchi di Maelzel in cui lo scrittore smaschera un falso automa scacchista detto "Il Turco" che era diventato famoso in Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Ma "Bitter Bierce" manipola la materia a suo modo. Come si intuisce dal titolo, egli mette in guardia gli uomini del suo tempo contro la tirannia di una macchina.

A collection of classic, exciting short stories and poems, narrated by Adam Lubitz. There are nine tracks total and over two hours of content.

Bierce está a la altura de Poe, Lovecraft y Maupassant en el panteón de ilustres del género terrorífico. Fue un maestro en la recreación de tensas atmósferas desasosegantes en medio de las cuales detona repentinamente un horror «físico», absorbente y feroz.

Bierce está a la altura de Poe, Lovecraft y Maupassant en el panteón de ilustres del género terrorífico. Fue un maestro en la recreación de tensas atmósferas desasosegantes en medio de las cuales detona repentinamente un horror "físico", absorbente y feroz.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce nació el 24 de junio de 1842 en Ohio, Estados Unidos. De padres granjeros, Ambrose fue el décimo de 13 hijos. Luchó en la Guerra Civil Estadounidense, llegando al grado de comandante.

More classic ghost stories from the golden age of spookiness. Eight stories by eight great writers, curated for your hair-raising pleasure. Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Company weave marvelous spells that whisk you into times and places you never thought you'd experience. Frightful and delightful.

Un incidente en el Puente de Owl Creek de Ambrose Bierce es uno de los cuentos más famosos de la literatura estadounidense. Esta versión bilingüe de Language Magic es una traducción original optimizada para ayudar a los aprendices de idiomas a avanzar por la vía rápida hacia la fluidez.

A federal officer's best friend is mortally wounded but still alive and suffering terribly. He just euthanized an injured horse, but the rules are quite different and specific regarding humans. They are alone with no sign of help for the dying man. What to do?

As in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Ambrose Bierce speculates on a person's final thoughts at the moment of death. An instant becomes a 30-minute short story. Bierce was an infantry officer in the Civil War and witnessed the deaths of many and no doubt contemplated his own; thus the fatalistic basis of much of his writing.

A child wanders away from home playing war and becomes lost in the woods. He falls asleep and finds himself in the midst of retreating wounded troops. He believes these wounded men to be part of his game until he arrives at his home.

A friend of the narrator, a very brave but sometimes reckless lieutenant, is killed in action. The narrator becomes the possessor of a letter that he returns to the sender after the war is over. He finds the sender of the letter to be a very beautiful, sophisticated, but self-centered woman. So self-centered one wonders if she understands the meaning of the narrator's last words to her.

It's the American Civil War, two men and a horse on a high precipice. War requires ordinary men to make extraordinary decisions. This was particularly true in the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce a veteran of that war spent much of the rest of his life writing short stories about it. This is one of his best narrated by award-winning audiobook narrator and producer Mike Vendetti.

Award-winning audiobook narrator and producer Mike Vendetti reads An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge a short story by Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce is one of the most famous short stories in American literature. This dual-language version from Language Magic™ is an original translation optimized to aid language learners on the fast-track to fluency. Discover that you can relax and enjoy the story while absorbing the language as you listen, and you can listen to it over and over until you find you can understand it completely in the language you are learning.

Es un relato fantástico del escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce. El relato fue publicado el 5 de junio de 1887 en el periódico San Francisco Examiner, y reeditado en la colección de cuentos fantásticos de 1891: Cuentos de soldados y civiles (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians).