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LONELINESS LURKED BEHIND BIERCE'S BARBED WIT.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19960407
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Byline: BARRETT R. RICHARDSON

AMBROSE BIERCE

Alone in Bad Company

ROY MORRIS JR.

Crown. 306 pp. $30

``When 71-year-old Ambrose Bierce disappeared without a trace into the smoke and dust of revolutionary Mexico in late December 1913, he probably had more enemies than any man alive.''

Or so author Roy Morris Jr. provocatively introduces the controversial and cranky journalist in his sweeping new biography, Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company.

Morris delightfully documents the reasons for antipathy toward Bierce. Like other historians, however, he ...

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