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The Devil's Dictionary: The Complete Edition

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#352790-ZC5
Titel	The Devil's Dictionary: The Complete Edition
Auteur	Bierce, Ambrose
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Richmond : Alma Books
Jaar van uitgave	2019
ISBN10	1847498175
ISBN13	9781847498175
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo. Alma Classics.
Samenvatting	One of the most popular satirical works of world literature, The Devil's Dictionary - here enriched with over 800 definitions left out from the original publications - brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce's contemporary Mark Twain. A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce's began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynic's Word Book. One of the most popular satirical works of American literature, The Devil's Dictionary – here published in its most complete 1911 version – brilliantly lays bar... (Lees verder)e the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce's contemporary Mark Twain.
Pagina's	344
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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