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Devil's Dictionary

Name: Devil's Dictionary
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 04514686
Price: 18.09 EUR
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Author: Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 9780195126273

Ambrose Bierce

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04514686

Publishers Oxford University Press Inc, July 1999

History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers... Full description

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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.

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About the book

Full name Devil's Dictionary

Author Ambrose Bierce

Language

English

Binding Book - Paperback

Date of issue 1999

Number of pages 252

EAN 9780195126273

ISBN 0195126270

Libristo code 04514686

Publishers Oxford University Press Inc

Weight 302

Dimensions 139 x 210 x 18

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