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The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary Hardback - 1999

by Ambrose Bierce

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  • Title The Devil's Dictionary
  • Author Ambrose Bierce
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Publication date 1999-01-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780195126266
  • ISBN 9780195126266 / 0195126262
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.86 x 1.07 in (21.72 x 14.88 x 2.72 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Category Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects Vocabulary - Humor, English language - Dictionaries - Humor
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98022576
  • Dewey Decimal Code 423.020
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self-Esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement.
These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.

About the author

Roy Morris, Jr., is the editor of America's Civil War and the author of Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company and Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. He lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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