Ambrose Bierce
Subtitle: Alone in Bad Company
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 27, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780195126280
First sentence: In the early spring of 1882, all San Francisco was abuzz over the rarefied presence of London's reigning literary lion, Oscar Wilde, in town for a series of public lectures on the future of art in the philistine world.