The Devil's Dictionary - Brossura

Bierce, Ambrose

 
9780486275420: The Devil's Dictionary
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ISBN 10: 0486275426 ISBN 13: 9780486275420
Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1993

Sinossi

Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits — a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, religion, literature and the arts. In this splendid "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes, you'll find over 1,000 pointed definitions, e.g. Congratulation ("The civility of envy"), Coward ("One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs") and Historian ("A broad-gauge gossip"). Anyone who likes to laugh will love The Devil's Dictionary. Anyone looking for a bon mot to enliven their next speech, paper or conversation will have a field day thumbing through what H. L. Mencken called "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language."

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Informazioni sull?autore

Journalist, short story writer, and satirist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was equally adept in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to poetry to political commentary. Bierce's fiction is particularly distinguished by its realistic depictions of the author's Civil War experiences.

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Editore
Dover Pubns
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0486275426
ISBN 13 
9780486275420
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
144
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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