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01 janvier 2020

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9789920738583

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English

Publié par

دار القلم العربي للنشر والتوزيع Editions Dar Al Qalam Al Arabi

Date de parution

01 janvier 2020

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9789920738583

Langue

English

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

Adaptation & Test Designing ABOUSSAIF MOHAMMED

Title : An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Writer: Ambrose Bierce Adaptation & Test Designing ABOUSSAIF MOHAMMED Editor DAR ALKALAM ALARABI– KENITRA–MOROCCO N190 MAGHREB ARABI E mail: alqalamdar@gmail.com First edition 2020 D.L : 2020MO0410 ISBN 978-9920-738-58-3 2

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American journalist, satirist and writer of sardonic short stories. His reputation as a fervor and searing critic and his self-expression of ‘Nothing matters’ earned him the epithet ‘Bitter Bierce’. His work ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’, a compilation of ironic and sarcastic lexicon reflects his sardonic acrimony. He had made significant contributions as a short story writer and his short stories were mostly based on themes of war, horror and death. His most notable and widely famous short story, ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’, a work par excellence is considered a flawless creation of a genius and counted among the best American short stories. Some of his other notable literary works are ‘A Horseman in the Sky’, ‘The HauntedValley’, ‘A Watcher by the Dead’ and ‘The Moonlit Road’ among many others. He was also a famous journalist in California and never hesitated in exposing the truth.

As a newspaper columnist, he specialized in critical attacks on amateur poets, clergymen, bores, dishonest politicians, money grabbers, pretenders, and frauds of all sorts. His censuring and sardonic observations of personalities and incidents also made him infamous as ‘the wickedest man in San Francisco’. Bierce disappeared mysteriously and was rumored to be last seen travelling with a rebellious troop. 3

Childhood & Early Life •He was born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio in a log cabin, in a poor family to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce as their tenth child among thirteen children. •He was raised in Kosciusko County, Indiana where he studied at the local high school. •At 15 years of age he left home and joined a newspaper as an apprentice. •In 1861 at the outbreak of the ‘American Civil War’, he was recruited in the ‘Union Army’•Bierce was discharged from the ‘Union Army’ in January 1865. However, he resumed his military career for a while in 1866 when he participated in the military expedition led by General Hazen to check for military outposts. The expedition headed from Omaha to Nebraska and finally reached San Francisco, California, at the year end. •In 1867 he was awarded a merit promotion as a brevet major in San Francisco. Personal Life & Legacy •On December 25, 1871, he married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day. The couple had two sons, Day and Leigh and a daughter, Helen. •In 1888, he separated from his wife after he found letters for Mary from an admirer. They eventually got divorced in 1904.

Among his works: •‘The Friend’s Delight’, published in in 1873.•‘Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California’ in 1872 and ‘Cobwebs from an Empty Skull’ in 1874.•‘In the Midst of Life’ published in 1892. It included his classic story ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ and other stories like ‘The Boarded Window’ and ‘A Horseman in the Sky’ among others.•‘Tales of Soldiers and Civilians’ (1891), ‘Can Such Things Be?’ (1893), ‘Fantastic Fables’ (1899) and ‘Collected Works’ (1909).•‘Chickamauga’ (1891), ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ (1891) ‘The Boarded Window’ (1891). •‘The Devil’s Dictionary’published in 1911 was earlier published in 1906 titled ‘The Cynic’s Word Book’.•silent film, ‘The Bridge’ in 1929 and the American and French versions of ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes in 1964, based on ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’…

CHAPTERI

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 rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners--two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff.

At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed. He was a captain. A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support," that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer 7

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