The Cynic's Word Book

The Cynic's Word Book

The Cynic's Word Book With reference to certain actual and possible questions of priority and originality, it...
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Author: Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914?
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Language: English
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The Cynic's Word Book

The Cynic's Word Book

CHF 11.68 CHF 5.83

The Cynic's Word Book

CHF 11.68 CHF 5.83
Author: Bierce, Ambrose,1842-1914?
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Cynic's Word Book

With reference to certain actual and possible questions of priority and originality, it may be explained that this Word Book was begun in the San Francisco "Wasp" in the year 1881, and has been continued, in a desultory way, in several journals and periodicals. As it was no part of the author's purpose to define all the words in the language, or even to make a complete alphabetical series, the stopping-place of the book was determined by considerations of bulk. In the event of this volume proving acceptable to that part of the reading public to which in humility it is addressedenlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, good English to slang, and wit to humorthere may possibly be another if the author be spared for the compiling. A conspicuous, and it is hoped not unpleasing, feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of whom is that learned and ingenious cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, S. J., whose lines bear his initials. To Father Jape's kindly encouragement and assistance the author of the prose text is greatly indebted. Washington, D. C., ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 43951
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Release Date: Oct 14, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English

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