The Devil's Dictionary
256 pages | Aug 31 2010 |ISBN: 0195126270 | PDF | 5.5 Mb
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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