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The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Ernest Jerome Hopkins

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The original edition contained 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." H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language." This edition includes eight hundred newly discovered definitions.

Bierce was a contemporary of Mark Twain, and his work resembled Twain’s, if perhaps filtered through Edgar Allan Poe. Through sardonic interpretations of even the most innocuous of words, Bierce savagely but hilariously exposes the dark side of society and its conventions. The book earned him the nickname “Bitter Bierce” but also lasting acclaim. Less than a decade after The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disappeared in Mexico while covering the Mexican Revolution and was never heard from again.

Language: English

Pages: 340

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Doubleday

Release: May 06, 1967

The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Ernest Jerome Hopkins

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The original edition contained 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." H. L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language." This edition includes eight hundred newly discovered definitions.

Bierce was a contemporary of Mark Twain, and his work resembled Twain’s, if perhaps filtered through Edgar Allan Poe. Through sardonic interpretations of even the most innocuous of words, Bierce savagely but hilariously exposes the dark side of society and its conventions. The book earned him the nickname “Bitter Bierce” but also lasting acclaim. Less than a decade after The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disappeared in Mexico while covering the Mexican Revolution and was never heard from again.

Language: English

Pages: 340

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Doubleday

Release: May 06, 1967

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