Ambrose Bierce

The Cynic's Word Book (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The dictionary was never meant to be an extensive project, and the entries don't go any further than the one for "Lord." As Bierce writes in the preface, "As it was no part of the author's purpose to define all the words in the language, or even to make a complete alphabetical series, the stopping-place of the book was determined by considerations of bulk. ... In the event of this volume proving acceptable to that part of the reading public to which in humility it is addressed-enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, good English to slang, and wit to humor-there may possibly be another if the author be spared for the compiling." Apparently it was acceptable, as a second edition, this time called The Devil's Dictionary, was published in 1911.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985315284
• Artikelnr.: 62736136

Autorenporträt

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914) journalist, satirist, and Civil War veteran, began his satirical redefinitions of ordinary words in a weekly newspaper in 1881, and saw them first collected in The Cynic's Word Book (1906). It was with the 1911 republication as The Devil's Dictionary that he struck comedy gold for the ages with his ironic riffs on American culture. Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States.