The Devil's Dictionary
$17.35
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 July 1993
Summary
Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions. Congratulations are “the civility of envy,” a historian is a “broad-gauged gossip,” and many more. H. L. Mencken called these “some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language.”
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, busines…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486275420 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486275426 |
| Author: | Ambrose Bierce |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 July 1993 |
| Weight: | 115g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 8mm x 130mm |
| Series: | Thrift Editions |
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Ambrose Bierce
Journalist, short story writer, and satirist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was equally adept in a variety of genres, from ghost stories to poetry to political commentary. Bierce’s fiction is particularly distinguished by its realistic depictions of the author’s Civil War experiences.
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