Description
| Product ID: | 9780141185927 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary |
| Authors: | Author: Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hopkins |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Dictionaries, Dictionaries, Classic fiction: general and literary, Humour, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Humour |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary". An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary". |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-06-28 |
