| The Devil's Dictionary Contributor(s): Bierce, Ambrose (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486275426 ISBN-13: 9780486275420 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $4.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1993 Annotation: The Devil's Dictionary is a hilarious satire from one of the most brilliant and incisive writers of all time --Ambrose Bierce. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Dictionaries - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 423.020 |
| LCCN: 92046179 |
| Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.24 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |