The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce - 图书 - Cosimo Classics - 9781605206554 - 2009年8月1日
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The Devil's Dictionary

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.

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2009年8月1日
ISBN13 9781605206554
出版商 Cosimo Classics
页数 148
商品尺寸 140 × 216 × 9 mm   ·   195 g
语言 英语  

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