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The Devil's Dictionary

By Ambrose Bierce

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| Paperback | 9780486275420

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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, religion, literature, and the arts. In this Continue

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, religion, 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-gauge 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."

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  • Fiendishly good

    The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, with an introduction by Angus Calder and illustrations by Ralph Steadman 192pp, Bloomsbury, £9.99 People are mean, selfish and greedy; the world is full of lies. This is the view of the cantankerous turn-of-t ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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