The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce; Chaz Bufe

ISBN 10: 1884365353 / ISBN 13: 9781884365355

Edité par See Sharp Press, 2004

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Synopsis :

This compilation of hundreds of biting, witty, cruel, and hilarious definitions combines the best 200 definitions from Ambrose Bierce's classic 'The Devil's Dictionary', with more than 500 definitions from the most humorous and stinging entries in Chaz Bufe's 'The American Heretic's Dictionary'. This new edition includes 50 new definitions from Bufe and new biting illustrations by San Francisco artist and filmmaker J R Swanson. The Bierce definitions focus on his favourite targets, including religion, jingoism masquerading as patriotism, the 'lickspittle' press, the thievery inherent in the American economic system, and the multitude of idiocies and hypocrisies pervading American social and political life. Bufe's definitions share many of the same targets, but also skewer such contemporary plagues as the 'right to life' movement, religious fundamentalism, the IRS, and the puritanically 'politically correct'. Bufe also turns a jaundiced eye on both male and female sexual attitudes, something which Bierce, writing in much more conservative times, was not free to do.

À propos de l'auteur: Ambrose Bierce was one of the most famous and iconoclastic American writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chaz Bufe lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the ...
Éditeur : See Sharp Press
Date d'édition : 2004
Reliure : Paperback
Illustrateur : Swanson, J. R.
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket
Edition : 2ème Édition