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The Devil s Dictionary Dover Thrift Editions Literary Collections
by [Ambrose Bierce]
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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."
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- Dover Publications Brand
- May 20, 1993 Pub Date:
- 9780486275420 ISBN-13:
- 0486275426 ISBN-10:
- 144.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 7.9 in * 0.5 in * 5 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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