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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Fun For Those With a Dark Sense of Humor|By Robert Bolton|Although Ambrose Bierce is little known today, there was a time when he was among the most widely read authors in America. His main claims to fame are his short stories, such as "The Damned Thing" or "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," that have been adapted for television, but he got his start with the Devil's Diction|||Bierce was America's first realist writer, but, unlike realism's later practitioners, he knew something about reality―it's really funny. (P. J. O'Rourke)
|This carefully edited manuscript will add immeasurably to Bierce studies. (Joseph B. McCul
"The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary" is a virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, offering some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. The "Unabridged Devil's Dictionary,"a satirical book first published in 1911, offers reinterpretations of terms in...
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