Classics Nov 7
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| Attitude of scorn, dark vision of life centers on warfare and cruel joke played on humanity | Bierce
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| 1842-1914 ? | Bierce
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| Meigs County, Ohio | Bierce
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| Joined 9th Indiana Volunteers, saw Civil war battles, cited for bravery 15 Xs | Bierce
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| Joined brother Albert to work in US Mint in San Francisco | Bierce
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| contributed witty, short pieces to city's weeklies | Bierce
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| Muckraking reporter & editor of San Francisco's NEWS LETTER | Bierce
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| Acquaintance of Mark Twain | Bierce
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| nickname Bitter _______ | Bierce
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| Married and moved to England, 4yrs of editing/contributing to humor mag, 1st attempts at fiction | Bierce
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| Returned to San Fran and wrote regular column | Bierce
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| witty scholar and literary dictator of W. Coast but did not get wide recognition | Bierce
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| The Devils Dictionary//The Cynics Word Book | Bierce
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| Joined Mexican Rev b/c it was a better way to die.. and no one ever heard about him after that.. 1914 | Bierce
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| An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge | Bierce
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| 1809-1849 | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Orphan | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Foster parents - John and Frances Allan in Richmond, VA | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Moody | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Tamerlane (poems), not a lot of recognition | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Enters US Military Academy to please stepfather | Edgar Allan Poe
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| El Aaraaf (poems) | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Moves in with aunt- Maria Poe Clemm and marries cousin Virginia | Edgar Allan Poe
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| The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - his only novel | Edgar Allan Poe
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| The Gold Bug | Edgar Allan Poe
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| The Purloined Letter | Edgar Allan Poe
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| The Murders in the Pue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe
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| The Tell Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe
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| The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allan Poe
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| writes psychological thrillers, unsetting truth in human mind | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Finally fame- The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Wife dies of brain lesion | Edgar Allan Poe
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| Found delirious and dies in 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe
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| most celebrated humorist in American history, humor is hard to translate, but he appealed to entire world | Mark Twain
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| Adventures of Huck Finn | Mark Twain
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| born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Mark Twain
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| Hannibal, Missouri (setting of Tom Sawyer) | Mark Twain
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| boyhood ended at 12 b/c father died | Mark Twain
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| Printer for 15 yrs | Mark Twain
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| Loved steamboats, apprenticed for Horace Bixby, got penname | Mark Twain
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| Confederate Civil War Soldier | Mark Twain
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| Funny b/c pretended not to recognized absurdity of material | Mark Twain
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| Journalist | Mark Twain
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| recognition for The Celebrated jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Mark Twain
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| The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain
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| Married Olivia Langdom | Mark Twain
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| Moved to Hartford, Connecticut | Mark Twain
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| Roughing It | Mark Twain
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| Does a series in friend Will Howells The Atlantic Monthly & it expanded into Life on the Mississippi | Mark Twain
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| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - celebration of boyhood | Mark Twain
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| Adventures of Huck Finn | Mark Twain
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| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court | Mark Twain
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| Pudd'n head Wilson | Mark Twain
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| Financial (economic panic of 1893), personal (2 daughters and wife die, then he dies), and professional disappointments | Mark Twain
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| Later years - bitter | Mark Twain
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| atmosphere - spooky | The Raven
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| symbolizes sorrow, haunting of death of Lenore | The Raven
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| 1817-1862 | Henry David Thoreau
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| Failed as teacher, husband, lectures | Henry David Thoreau
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| Harvard Edu | Henry David Thoreau
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| WAlden Pond, Mass | Henry David Thoreau
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| Hard to get along with | Henry David Thoreau
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| Walden- success - fundamental spiritual truths | Henry David Thoreau
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| Resistance to Civil Gov. (essay) | Henry David Thoreau
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| Tuberculosis - dies peacefully | Henry David Thoreau
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| simple & natural life | Walden, Thoreau
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