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The Devil's Dictionary
Contributor(s): Bierce, Ambrose (Author), Morris, Roy, Jr. (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0195126270     ISBN-13: 9780195126273
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1999
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Annotation: The 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. The words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.
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BISAC Categories:
- Reference | Dictionaries
- Humor | Form - Parodies
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Dewey: 423.020
LCCN: 98022576
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.70 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Topical - Civil War
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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.
 
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