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Dictionary Of The Book, The: A Glossary For Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librar E. Berger, Sidney Rowman & Littlefield Publisher Inc |
Título: Devil's Dictionary | ||
Autor: Bierce, Ambrose | Precio: $56.00 | |
Editorial: Dover Publications, Inc. | Año: 1993 | |
Tema: Diccionario, Humor, Vocabulario | Edición: 1ª | |
Sinopsis | ISBN: 9780486275420 | |
Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits--a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, religion, literature and the arts. In this splendid "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes, you'll find over 1,000 pointed definitions, e.g. Congratulation ("The civility of envy"), Coward ("One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs") and Historian ("A broad-gauge gossip"). Anyone who likes to laugh will love The Devil's Dictionary. Anyone looking for a bon mot to enliven their next speech, paper or conversation will have a field day thumbing through what H. L. Mencken called "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language." |