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Escritor y periodista, Ambrose Bierce es sobre todo conocido por sus relatos, de estilo realista y muy influidos por Poe. Esta edicion recoge catorce de sus relatos y el Diccionario del diablo, un extrano conjunto de definiciones sobre las mas heterogeneas entradas, que el qutor solia firmar como "Diccionario completo para idiotas.

An American classic full of the razor-sharp wit of the 'Yankee Oscar Wilde'. A host of alternative defintitions telling it how it really is. For example: 'Bride, n. A woman with a great future behind her' Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.

A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, this dictionary offers 1600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit that allows our failings and excesses to shine forth.

Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose "Devil's Dictionary" remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the English-speaking world, he was also a master of the short story form. This volume contains a selection of Bierce's poems, essays and letters on poetry, and poets.

A prolific journalist and author well known for his tales of horror and stories about the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was also a mordant commentator on the political, social, legal, and intellectual failings of his countrymen. Throughout his career, he remained an unapologetic curmudgeon who took a dim view of everything from trade unions and the temperance movement to Americans' insatiable thirst for money. Even the very principles...

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The Bitter Bierce". Siegeszug der zynischen VernunftDer amerikanische Schriftsteller Ambrose Bierce (1842-Weihnachten/Neujahr 1913/14) hatte nicht nur eine scharfe Zunge, sondern auch eine spitze Feder. Er war einer der schillerndsten Gestalten im literarischen Amerika des 19. Jahrhunderts - die personifizierte Provokation und ein gehässiger Zyniker, der kein Thema ausließ. Ganz gleich, ob es um allgemeine, kleine oder große Schwächen des Mens...