Devil's Dictionary

Autor: Ambrose Bierce

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Cosimo Classics

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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American satirist AMBROSE GWINNETT BIERCE (1842-c. 1914) began his satirical redefinitions of ordina...

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Autor

Ambrose Bierce

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

148

EAN

9781605206554

ISBN

9781605206554

Enbook ID

08778657

Vydavatel

Cosimo Classics

Hmotnost

195

Rozměry

140 x 216 x 9

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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.

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