The Devil's Dictionary - Couverture souple

Bierce, Ambrose

 
9780486275420: The Devil's Dictionary
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0486275426 ISBN 13 : 9780486275420
Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2000

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Dover Publications Inc.
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0486275426
ISBN 13 
9780486275420
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
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