The Devil's Dictionary
- ISBN-10
- 1495352730
- ISBN-13
- 9781495352737
- Series
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1911
- Publisher
- A. & C. Boni
- Author
- Ambrose Bierce
Description
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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- 2023-03-01
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