The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and adapted by Ambrose Bierce. Introduction by Maurice Valency. Illustrations by Michel Ciry

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914

Published by New York: The Heritage Press, 1967

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Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and adapted by Ambrose Bierce. Introduction by Maurice Valency. Illustrations by Michel Ciry. New York: The Heritage Press, 1967, xiv, 80pp., good light brown cloth in slipcase, but spine slightly faded, edge of first few pages lightly bumped, light wear to slipcase. The publication is called "one of the most tangled episodes of his career. A young German-Jewish dentist, Gustav Adolph Danziger, had brought him a rough translation of a short novel by Richard Voss, Der Mönch von Berchtesgaden, which had appeared in a German monthly. Bierce rewrote the story from Danziger's translation, and the two signed a complicated contract dividing the rewards they expected to get. Their work appeared serially under the title The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter in the Examiner; then it was published by F. J. Schulte of Chicago, who went bankrupt. For years Danziger squabbled with Bierce over The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter" (M. E. Grenander). - In a 1931 article Frank Monaghan compared Bierce's version with that of Voss and found few differences. Bierce cannot qualify as the "author", he concluded.

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• Title: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and adapted by Ambrose Bierce. Introduction by Maurice Valency. Illustrations by Michel Ciry
• Publisher: New York: The Heritage Press, 1967
• Binding: Hardcover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)