Devil’s Dictionary
BIERCE, AMBROSE
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Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions. Congratulations are \"the civility of envy,\" a historian is a \"broad-gauged gossip,\" many more. H. L. Mencken called these \"some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language.\"
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, religion, 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-gauge 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.\"
ISBN: 9780486275420
Author: BIERCE, AMBROSE
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20/05/1993
RRP: $12.99
Pages: 144
Dimension: 209mm X 131mm
Imprint: Dover Publications
