The Devils Dictionary Of Ambrose Bierce Complete And Unabridged Special Edition

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Special Edition Books
ISBN 13 : 9781934255292
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary of Ambrose Bierce - Complete and Unabridged - Special Edition written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Special Edition Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun in a weekly paper in 1881, Bierce's "dictionary" contained the sardonic definitions published by Ambrose Bierce as "The cynic's word book" in 1906.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1911 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY - Ambrose Bierce written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce's satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book's ninety-year history

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820326348
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. A virtual 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. This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included. Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, journalist, and writer Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, journalist, and writer Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers. Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and then in a more complete version as The Devil's Dictionary in 1911.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781438288659
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Original Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short stories, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary. The dictionary offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language and also which lampoon religious and political doublespeak. Examples: LAWYER One skilled in circumvention of the law. FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482395433
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The DEVILS Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical "reference" book written by Ambrose Bierce. The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. Modern "unabridged" versions that include Bierce "definitions" that were for various reasons missed by earlier editions continue to be popular a century later.

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary:Classic Edition(Annotated Edition) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American Civil War soldier, journalist, and writer Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers.