The Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425125238
• ISBN13: 9780425125236
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 5 years and up