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Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (1993, Trade Paperback, Reprint,New Edition)

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Author: Ambrose Bierce. Title: The Devil's Dictionary. Book Series: Thrift Editions. Format: Paperback. Item Length: 125mm. Item Weight: 125g. EAN: 9780486275420. Item Height: 210mm.

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Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions by the 19th-century journalist and satirist often called "the American Swift." Congratulations are "the civility of envy." A coward is "one who in an emergency thinks with his legs." A historian is a "broad-gauge gossip," more. H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language."

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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486275426
ISBN-13
9780486275420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
779384

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Book Title
Devil's Dictionary
Author
Ambrose Bierce
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Dictionaries, General, Satire, American / General
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Référence, Literary Collections, Humor, Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
4.9in
Item Weight
4.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps1097.D4
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Edition Description
Reprint,New Edition
Preface by
Bierce, Ambrose
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
92-046179
Dewey Decimal
818/.4/08
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
Dewey Edition
20

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4 out of 5 stars
by artemusautJun 25, 2019
All the information I wanted
Although it is a cheap publication, it has everything I expected in it.
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by hmy_tMGkRAq@Del...Jul 07, 2006
Bierce's rapier wit is timeless
Examples: Corporation (n) an ingenious An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Academe (n) an ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy (n) [from Academe] a modern school where football is taught. Everyone should read this century-old dictionary to remind himself that there is nothing new under the sun, that the more things change the more they stay the same, that life isn't one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over.
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by jo540015Feb 07, 2023
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Wanted to check this out for a while. Takes my brain a while to get some of the humor. Got it at a great price and arrived earlier.
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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (1993)
This book is a one of a kind, very humorous and diabolical. For example: Coward ("One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs") I laughed when I read this and kept on finding new meanings to the most common words we use. A great book at heart for those with a cynical mind. -Derek

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