| Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce, Biography & Autobiography Contributor(s): Bierce, Ambrose (Author) |
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ISBN: 1587158612 ISBN-13: 9781587158612 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Ambrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car; he was a renter who never owned his own home. He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light: and in the end he rode, with all of his possessions, on a rented horse into the Mexican desert to join Pancho Villa -- never to return. Can Such Things Be? Once William Randolph Hearst -- Bierce's employer, who was bragging about his own endless collections of statuary, art, books, tapestries, and, of course real estate like Hearst Castle -- once William Randolph Hearst asked Bierce what he collected. Bierce responded, smugly: "I collect words. And ideas. Like you, I also store them. But in the reservoir of my mind. I can take them out and display them at a moment's notice. Eminently portable, Mr. Hearst. And I don't find it necessary to show them all at the same time." Such things "can" be. twenty-four tales of the weird by Ambrose Bierce, renowned master of the macabre (jacketless library hardcover) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.06 lbs) 232 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Bierce, Ambrose: - "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."" |