The Devil's Dictionary (Thrift Editions)

the best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American heretic's dictionary

Dover Publications Inc. (Jul 20, 1993)

9780486275420

| Paperback

144 pages | 134 x 206 mm | English

$ 3.50 | Value: $ 3.50

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Dewey 423.0207

LC Classification PS1097 .D4 1993

LC Control No. 92046179

Subject

English Language
English Language/ Dictionaries/ Humor
English Language/ Semantics/ Humor
Vocabulary
Vocabulary/ Humor

Plot

Born in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits - a merciless "American Swift" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, reliegion, 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") and Historian ("A broad-guage 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."