Ambrose Bierce For the CSET
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If you are studying for the CSET Multiple Subjects or CSET English exams, you should know a little about Ambrose Bierce. In this lesson we will read a little about Ambrose Bierce, watch a video, then read his famous story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842 - 1914) was the author of supernatural stories that have secured his place in both the weird tradition and in American letters at large. Apart from a few well-anthologized ghost stories (notably, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”), Bierce is best remembered for his cynical, humorous, and just plain weird, Devil’s Dictionary.
The Devil’s Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in long intervals until 1906.
Bierce served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. He is noted for his tales of the Civil War, which drew on his own experience as a Union cartographer and officer. His first job in journalism was as editor for the San Francisco News-Letter and California Advertiser.
His works added a Western setting to Gothic fiction and, more importantly, developed the psychological aspects of horror first recognized by Poe.
In 1913, at the age of seventy-one, Bierce set out on a trip to Mexico. He disappeared into revolution-torn Mexico and was never seen again. His end is mysterious, though he probably perished in the battle of Ojinaga on January 11, 1914.
Read the Wikipedia article on Ambrose Bierce then return to this lesson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce
Ambrose Bierce Video
The biography of Ambrose Bierce, as told by Random Sponge Corp. posted by DDrin2fast4u
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by Ambrose Bierce
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A
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