The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions)

Ambrose Bierce

ISBN 10: 0486275426 / ISBN 13: 9780486275420

Verlag: Dover Publications, 1993

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0486275426-3-19013276

Inhaltsangabe:

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."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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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Titel: The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift ...
Verlag: Dover Publications
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good