"John Smith"
| Title | "John Smith" |
| Year for Search | 1893 |
| Authors | [Bierce], [Ambrose Gwinett](1842-1914?) |
| Secondary Title | Fun |
| Volume / Edition | 17 |
| Pagination | 199 |
| Date Published | May 10, 1893 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 88-90. |
| Title Note | Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." |
| Holding Institutions | L, MnU |
| Author Note | (1842-1914?) |
| Full Text | 1893 [Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett] (1842-1914?). “John Smith.” Fun 17 (May 10, 1893): 199. Rpt. as “John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future).” The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 88-90. L, MnU Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free. |
