The Devil's Dictionary: The Complete Edition - 1911 Edition, Enriched with Over 800 Definitions Left Out from the Original Publications - Softcover

Bierce, Ambrose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847498175 ISBN 13: 9781847498175

Verlag: Alma Classics, 2020

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A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce's began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynic's Word Book.

One of the most popular satirical works of American literature, The Devil's Dictionary – here published in its most complete 1911 version – brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce's contemporary Mark Twain.

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Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) was an American short story writer and journalist. He is probably best known for his story 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek', published in 1890. In 1913 he went to Mexico in order to observe the civil war there. Whilst travelling with Pancho Villa's army in 1914, he vanished without a trace.

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A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce's began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynic's Word Book. One of the most popular satirical works of American literature, The Devil's Dictionary - here published in its most complete 1911 version - brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce's contemporary Mark Twain. Contains extra material and notes.

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• Verlag: Alma Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847498175
• ISBN 13: 9781847498175
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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