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Alone in Bad Company

KORTE INHOUD

A lively and compelling portrait of one of the most acerbic and distinctive voices in American literature, Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company is a clear-eyed but sympathetic account of a complex individual at odds with his country, his family, his times, and himself.
The only American writer of any stature to fight in and survive the Civil War, Bierce discovered in the conflict a bitter confirmation of his darkest assumptions about man and his nature. Profoundly disillusioned, Bierce spent the next fifty y...
1999 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1999 Uitgever: Oxford University Press Usa 318 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0195126289 ISBN-13: 9780195126280