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Nato a Horse Cave Creek (Ohio) nel 1842 in una famiglia numerosa (era il decimo figlio), Ambrose Bierce girò in lungo e in largo per gli Stati Uniti vivendo di espedienti. Apprese l’arte della cartografia, che gli permise di arruolarsi nell’esercito come volontario nel 1861. A ventiquattro anni lasciò la vita militare e raggiunse San Francisco, dove iniziò la sua carriera di giornalista e scrittore. I suoi racconti vennero ritenuti tra i migliori dell’Ottocento. La sua morte è uno dei misteri della letteratura americana: a settantun anni partì per il Messico in piena guerra civile e scomparve durante la battaglia di Ojinaga nel 1914.
The Devil's Dictionary By Ambrose Bierce. E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
EBOOK   9786050310665

The Devil's Dictionary By Ambrose Bierce. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Ambrose Bierce   -  Ambrose Bierce, 2014  - 

The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work: "This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books—The Cynic's This, The Cynic's That, and The Cynic's t'Other. Most of these books were merely stupid, though some of them added the distinction of silliness. Among them, they brought the word 'cynic' into disfavor so deep that any book bearing it was discredited in advance of publication."

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