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The Devil's Dictionary
Buch von Ambrose Bierce
Sprache: Englisch

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Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp in 1881, and later for the San Francisco Examiner, launching a journalistic career that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure and earn him the title of "the wickedest man in San Francisco." A contemporary of Mark Twain, Bierce brought his biting humor to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words, writing deliberate mistranslations of the vocabulary of the establishment, the church, and the politics of his day, and shining a sardonic light on hypocrisy and deception. These columns formed the beginnings of a dictionary, first published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, which stopped at the letter L, and five years later as a full A-Z text known as The Devil's Dictionary. More than one hundred years later, Bierce's redefinitions still give us pause for thought: interpreting reporter, for example, as "a writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words"; un-american as "wicked, intolerable, heathenish"; and politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." This timely new edition of Bierce's irreverent and provocative dictionary is the perfect gift for misanthropes and word lovers alike.
Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp in 1881, and later for the San Francisco Examiner, launching a journalistic career that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure and earn him the title of "the wickedest man in San Francisco." A contemporary of Mark Twain, Bierce brought his biting humor to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words, writing deliberate mistranslations of the vocabulary of the establishment, the church, and the politics of his day, and shining a sardonic light on hypocrisy and deception. These columns formed the beginnings of a dictionary, first published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, which stopped at the letter L, and five years later as a full A-Z text known as The Devil's Dictionary. More than one hundred years later, Bierce's redefinitions still give us pause for thought: interpreting reporter, for example, as "a writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words"; un-american as "wicked, intolerable, heathenish"; and politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." This timely new edition of Bierce's irreverent and provocative dictionary is the perfect gift for misanthropes and word lovers alike.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Thema: Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781851245079
ISBN-10: 1851245073
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bierce, Ambrose
Hersteller: Bodleian Library
Maße: 207 x 136 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Ambrose Bierce
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2018
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
preigu-id: 121118030
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Thema: Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781851245079
ISBN-10: 1851245073
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bierce, Ambrose
Hersteller: Bodleian Library
Maße: 207 x 136 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Ambrose Bierce
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2018
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
preigu-id: 121118030
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