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The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ambrose Bierce is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions) about?
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 ("
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Common subject areas: reference, language, dictionaries and manuals.
- Author
- Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher
- New York : Dover Publications
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486275420
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Reference
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (533 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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