The Devils Dictionary: The Complete Edition: The Complete Edition 1911 edition, enriched with over 800 definitions left out from the original publications

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A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierces began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynics Word Book. One of the most popular satirical works of American literature, The Devils Dictionary here published in its most complete 1911 version brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierces contemporary Mark Twain.

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The corrosive insights of Bierce seem as bitter and fresh as ever. He handles words with delicious precision. * The Daily Telegraph *

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Ambrose Bierce (18421914) was an American short story writer and journalist. He is probably best known for his story An Occurrence at Owl Creek, published in 1890. In 1913 he went to Mexico in order to observe the civil war there. Whilst travelling with Pancho Villas army in 1914, he vanished without a trace.