The Devil's Dictionary
ISBN-13:
9780195126273
ISBN-10:
0195126270
Author:
Ambrose Bierce, Roy Morris Jr.
Publication date:
1999
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780195126273
ISBN-10:
0195126270
Author:
Ambrose Bierce, Roy Morris Jr.
Publication date:
1999
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
Summary
The Devil's Dictionary (ISBN-13: 9780195126273 and ISBN-10: 0195126270), written by authors
Ambrose Bierce, Roy Morris Jr., was published by Oxford University Press in 1999.
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History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self-Esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement.
These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.
These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.
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