Devil's Dictionary

Zusatztext 'An American classic! some of its charming (and cynical) definitions are uncannily appropriate to our own day and would make it! I fancy! an ideal Christmas stocking present' Informationen zum Autor A veteran of the American Civil War who fought at Shiloh and Chickamauga in the Union ranks, Bierce became one of America's best-known writers and journalists, admired for his insolent, entertaining and sometimes courageous columns. In 1913 he set off for Mexico, then in the throes of revolution, and was never seen again. Ralph Steadman is the author of many illustrated books including Sigmund Freud, I Leonardo, The Big I Am, The Scar-Strangled Banner, Alice and Animal Farm. His most recent publication is the novel, Doodaaa. Zusammenfassung A classic quick-witted dictionary.

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'The corrosive insights of Ambrose Bierce seem as bitter and fresh as ever. He handles words with delicious precision' Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Ambrose Bierce
• Assisted by: Ralph Steadman (Illustration)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.10.2008
• EAN: 9780747594109
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-9410-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Dictionaries, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Parodies & Spoofs, Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc