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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
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| Editorial Review |
| 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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| Product Details |
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- ISBN-10: 1-60520-655-5
- ISBN-13: 978-1-60520-655-4
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- Published on: August 01, 2009
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 148 pages
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