The Devil's Dictionary

(Book #11 in the New Classics Illustrated Series)

by Ambrose Bierce

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0425125238

ISBN13:9780425125236

Release Date:January 1991

Publisher:Berkley Publishing Group

Length:48 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Age Range:5 years and up

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Children's Children's Books Comics & Graphic Novels Education & Reference Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Reference

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