The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce - Bücher - Cosimo Classics - 9781605206554 - 1. August 2009
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The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary

American satirist AMBROSE GWINNETT BIERCE (1842-c. 1914) began his satirical redefinitions of ordinary words in a weekly newspaper in 1881, and saw them first collected in *The Cynic's Word Book* in 1906. But it was with the 1911 republication as *The Devil's Dictionary* that he struck comedy gold for the ages with his pointedly mocking and ironic riffs on politics, business, religion, the arts, and American culture at large. From *abasement* ("a decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power; peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer") to *zoology* ("the science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly"), *The Devil's Dictionary* remains as witty today as it was a century ago.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 1. August 2009
ISBN13 9781605206554
Verlag Cosimo Classics
Seitenanzahl 148
Maße 140 × 216 × 9 mm   ·   195 g
Sprache Englisch  

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