The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce - 書籍 -  - 9798674271215 - 2020年8月23日
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The Devil's Dictionary

If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce's satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book's ninety-year history. A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth.

メディア 書籍     Paperback Book   (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本)
リリース済み 2020年8月23日
ISBN13 9798674271215
ページ数 236
寸法 127 × 203 × 14 mm   ·   258 g
言語 英語  

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