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The Devil's Dictionary

  • Paperback
  • 148 pages
  • Publisher: Cosimo Classics
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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American satirist AMBROSE GWINNETT BIERCE (1842-c. 1914) began his satirical redefinitions of ordinary words in a weekly newspaper in 1881, and saw them first collected in *The Cynic's Word Book* in 1906. But it was with the 1911 republication as *The Devil's Dictionary* that he struck comedy gold for the ages with his pointedly mocking and ironic riffs on politics, business, religion, the arts, and American culture at large. From *abasement* ("a decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power; peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer") to *zoology* ("the science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly"), *The Devil's Dictionary* remains as witty today as it was a century ago.
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  • Author

    Ambrose Bierce

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cosimo Classics

  • Published

    August 2009

  • Weight

    196g

  • Page Count

    148

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781605206554

  • ISBN-10

    1605206555

  • Eden Code

    2642768

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