2008年12月9日火曜日

My favourite books 3

I wanted the book, 'Davil's Dictionary' and bought it yesterday. It was writtin by Ambrose Bierce, an American writer.



It is not a normal dictionary. Satire, humour, emphatic, irony...... The explanation of the book says that it is a similarity between 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift, a Irish writer. I have not read 'Gulliver's Travels' except picture books. I will read it soon maybe......



Bierce was a journalist, too. He was called 'bitter Bierce' or 'laughing devil' because of his sharp writing style. However, nobody knew where he died. He went to Mexico in Mexico revoluiton and disappered in1913. This is one of the famous disappearance in America.



By the way, according to the book, love is a kind of a mental illness. What do you think about it??

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