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 Biercethe 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 forciblycontradicts 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.
| ISBN: | 9780195126266 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 1999 |
| Author: | Ambrose Bierce |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 219 pages |
| Genres: |
Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction Civil wars Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare) |
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 Devil's Dictionary features in the following genres: Parodies and spoofs: non-fiction, Civil wars, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
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The Devil's Dictionary was written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA
The Devil's Dictionary has 219 pages