Wicked Wisdom: A Cynics Dictionary
Language: English
Published by The Five Mile Press, 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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Hardcover as new condition. More than 200 people (all with a brief biography at the end of the book) from Shakespeare to Lenny Henry have coined the cynical definitions. Not numbered.
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- Title
- Wicked Wisdom: A Cynics Dictionary
- Author
- Compiled by Maggie Pinkney
- Publisher
- The Five Mile Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 174124174X
- ISBN 13
- 9781741241747
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Reference
The entries in this dictionary comprise caustic quotations by a variety of cynics and truth-tellers - ever ready yo prick the conceits and pomposities of their times. Foremost is Ambrose Bierce (1842-c1914) an American journalist, satirist and short story writer - and the compiler of the first cynic's lexicon 'The Devil's Dictionary'. The best of his curmudgeonly definitions form the backbone of this collection.
NB: This ISBN seems to have been used for two different titles for this work:
'The Devil's Collection: A Cynic's Dictionary' - first published 2003
and
'Wicked Wisdom: A Cynic's Dictionary' - first published 2004
... although the latter title does have an alternative ISBN as well!
Additional Bibliographical note: That alternative ISBN is used here for the 2005 edition but the 2004 edition has the same ISBN, 1865038563, as 'The Devil's Collection'!
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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