Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers

by Ambrose Bierce

Book Overview

Amusing and thought-provoking, this A-to-Z compendium outlines common oral and written gaffes. Ambrose Bierce, a celebrated literary wit, assembled his informative compilation in 1909 from many years... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802717683
• ISBN13: 9780802717689
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

concise

The book is conise. Well written. I haven't read the entire book yet. It seems to have begun as a writing for a newspaper or perhaps a series in a magazine.