The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror - Paperback

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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror - Paperback

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror - Paperback

by Ambrose Bierce
$21.15
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by Ambrose Bierce (Author)

Finally published in its entirety in 1911, the definitions found therein are as apt today as they were nearly a century ago. An example: "HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers."

Portions of it were published in the San Francisco Wasp as a weekly column and in The Cynic's Word Book of 1906.

Number of Pages: 228
Dimensions: 0.54 x 9.16 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
ISBN9781598189926
Author Ambrose Bierce
PublisherAegypan
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages228
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories (2000) and co-editor of The Portable American Realism Reader (1997). His other books include Coming to Grips with Huckleberry Finn (1993), Mark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997) and Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (2001).

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