Unabridged devil s dictionary

Informationen zum Autor AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America's most renowned satirists. The author of short stories, essays, fables, poems, and sketches, he was a popular columnist and wrote for several San Francisco and London newspapers during his forty-year journalism career. Klappentext A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, this dictionary offers 1600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit that allows our failings and excesses to shine forth. Zusammenfassung A virtual onslaught of acerbic! confrontational wordplay! this dictionary offers 1600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe! for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit that allows our failings and excesses to shine forth.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: a schultz Bierce, Ambrose Bierce
• Collaboration: Ambrose Bierce (Editeur), S T Joshi (Editeur), S. Joshi (Editeur), S. T. Joshi (Editeur), David Schultz (Editeur), David E Schultz (Editeur), David E. Schultz (Editeur)
• Edition: External catalogues US
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 15.12.2001
• EAN: 9780820324012
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2401-2
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Bandes dessinées, dessin humoristique, humour, satire; Littérature spécialisée > Dictionnaire, ouvrages de référence > Dictionnaires de langues étrangères; Humor, HUMOR / General