Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary Illustrated

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  • Engelsk
  • 328 sider

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Do you want to read a great classic illuminated with over 220 authentic illustrations? It's a piece of work that will keep you up nights reading and drinking. This book is the perfect mixture of Ambrose Bierce and 21st Century Dada. Here's what they're saying about The Devil's Dictionary Illustrated:

"This is the perfect mixture of a plotless book and 21st Century Dada." - Sheila Takya, New Century Dada Press. "This is the best book I ever read." - Abraham Lincoln. "What a great cure for insomnia " - Freida People. "These illustrations look like I need a drink." - Rhoda Booke, Loose Change Quaarterly. "Even the worst book has an end." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "Even poorer than I expected, which is saying something." - Rhoda Mule, KRUD Radio. "It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again." - Oscar Wilde. "Why is there a one-hundred-year old dictionary with silly illustrations? Is it a text book?" - Emily Pest. "Anti-humanist claptrap padded with hundreds of witless images. It's sure to be a winner." - Lucinda Head. "Wouldn't a comic book version be easier to read?" - Vito Powers, US Congress. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal. "The Devil's Dictionary Illustrated made me physically ill, even more revolting than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains. "Having seen these illustrations, I must weep." - Barb Dwyer. It reminds me of Moose Murders." - Felix Cited. "This Dada book is truly a modern surreal experience." - Salvador Doily. "Chee chee cheers for Upkingbilly and crow cru cramwells Downaboo Hup, boys, and hat him ... my guesthouse and cowhaendel credits will immediately stand ohoh open as straight as that neighbouring monument's fabrication before the hygienic gllll." - James Joyce.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal328
  • Udgivelsesdato12-09-2014
  • ISBN139781501092916
  • Forlag Createspace
  • FormatPaperback
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Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt521 g
  • Dybde1,7 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
    book img
    16,9 cm
    24,4 cm

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