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  The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback) By (author) Ambrose Bierce

  

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  Short Description for The Devil's DictionaryThe Devil's Dictionary is a hilarious satire from one of the most brilliant and incisive writers of all time --Ambrose Bierce.
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  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
  • Published: 01 July 1993
  • Format: Paperback 144 pages
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  • Categories: Dictionaries | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Humor
  • ISBN 13: 9780486275420 ISBN 10: 0486275426
  • Sales rank: 9,416

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• Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits - a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, reliegion, literature and the arts. In this splendid "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes, you'll find over 1,000 pointed definitions, e.g. Congratulation ("The civility of envy"), Coward ("One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs") and Historian ("A broad-guage gossip"). Anyone who likes to laugh will love "the Devil's Dictionary." Anyone looking for a bon mot to enliven their next speech, paper or conversation will have a field day thumbing through what H.L. Mencken called "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language."