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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary( )
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Editor: Schultz, David E.
Joshi, S. T.
ISBN:978-0-8203-2401-2
Publication Date:Dec 2001
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $36.00
Book Description:

An onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth.

Book Details
Pages:440
Detailed Subjects: Humor / Form / Puns & Wordplay
Reference / Word Lists
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.591 cm
Book Weight:0.586 Kilograms
Author Biography
Bierce, Ambrose (Author)
Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches.

Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution.

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