The Devil's Dictionary
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:20th Oct '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.25(9781598189926)
In its first paperback incarnation, The Devil's Dictionary is sure to receive a wealth of new fans. Peppered with impish and incisive illustrations by the iconic Ralph Steadman Will appeal to the QI generation and all those hungry for trivia with an anarchic twist
A classic quick-witted dictionary.A word book, straight up, with a twist, "The Devil's Dictionary" is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of Mark Twain, was one of America's first great writers and journalists. His razor-sharp wit and underlying rage against hypocrisy are perfectly complemented by Ralph Steadman's equally incisive pen-and-ink illustrations.
'The corrosive insights of Ambrose Bierce seem as bitter and fresh as ever. He handles words with delicious precision' Daily Telegraph 'If one book should be issued to every child at birth, this is it What is extraordinary about Bierce's waspish definitions is how accurate they seem, more than a century after he wrote them This edition is exuberantly illustrated by Ralph Steadman Everyone should buy this, and learn from it' Time Out 'A superb book. Steadman has always been one of my heroes' Raymond Briggs 'An American classic, some of its charming (and cynical) definitions are uncannily appropriate to our own day and would make it, I fancy, an ideal Christmas stocking present' Antonia Fraser, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 9780747594109
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: unknown
192 pages