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The Devil's Dictionary
..............................................................by Ambrose Bierce

AMBROSE BIERCE

Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short story writer and critic, Ambrose Bierce developed into one of the 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"), 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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A Dover Thrift Edition | General Editor: Stanley Appelbaum | Editor of this Volume: Philip Smith
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