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  <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.

Bierce disappeared in Mexico during the revolution in 1913; his actual date of death is unknown but assumed to be around the time of his disappearance, as he was in his seventies. ]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Meigs County, Ohio</hometown>  <born_at>06/24/1842</born_at>  <died_at>01/01/1914</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]></title>
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  <published>1911</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <published>1890</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.27</average_rating>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <published>1964</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Civil War Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <published>1890</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Great Ghost Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[E.G. Swain]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[J.S. Fanu]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Montague Rhodes James]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Bram Stoker]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.88</average_rating>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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        <book id="1084577">
  <title><![CDATA[Tales of Soldiers and Civilians &amp; Other Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Tom Quirk]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.21</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>29</ratings_count>
  <published>1909</published>  
  
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        <book id="78466">
  <title><![CDATA[The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>24</ratings_count>
  <published>1946</published>  
  
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        <book id="1373288">
  <title><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce's Civil War]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
  <published>1956</published>  
  
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