The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Ambrose Bierce (Author), Ambrose Bierce (Author), John Myers (Preface), Ernest Hopkins (Editor)

Synopsis

An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Jun 2001

ISBN 10: 0141185929
ISBN 13: 9780141185927

Author Bio
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1913) American satirist, critic, short story writer, editor and journalist. He is perhaps most famous for his serialized mock lexicon, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY in which, over the years, he scathed American culture and accepted wisdom by pointing out alternate, more practical definitions for common words.