![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But afterwards – unlike Harte, who had permanently departed the scanty commercial opportunities there – he returned to California.īierce is perhaps best known for a series of sometimes brilliantly and sometimes laboriously cynical mock-definitions of pretentiously or hypocritically used words whose influence as a model for Satire has been wide but subterranean, a good example being The Onion Book of Known Knowledge (anth 2012) by the editors of the Onion, many of whose dictionary definitions patently reflect the tone of (but do not acknowledge) their source. Like Bret Harte and Mark Twain, (who settled in London, as for shorter periods did Joaquin Miller and Twain), he soon went abroad, spending 1872- circa 1875 in the UK, publishing three volumes of sketches there as by Dod Grile, most notably The Fiend's Delight (coll 1873), which contains "The Discomfited Demon", his first significant tale of the supernatural, and the savage little fables assembled primarily in Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (coll 1873 UK vt Cobwebs: Being the Fables of Zambri, the Parsee, circa 1873). (1842- circa 1914) US journalist, poet and author of short stories and Satires, deeply affected by his four years in the American Civil War (he enlisted as a private in 1861, was breveted major for bravery, and was wounded twice). ![]()
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