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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979. Very good (a few foxing spots on page edges) in good+ dust jacket (edgeworn lightly, water spot on front panel that has not spotted the book itself, however). Book Club Edition. Bierce's humorous and sarcastic definitions supplemented by Suares's drawings. Examples of Bierce's humor: "Destiny: a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure." "Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work." . Hard Cover. Illus. by Jean-Claude Suares.
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- Author BIERCE, Ambrose
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- Language ENG
- Publisher T. Y. Crowell, New York
- Date 1979
- ISBN 9780690017649
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers, 1979 Book. Illus. by Jean-Claude Suares. Fine. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 156 (3) pp. with b&w illustrations throughout. Book Club (BCE/BOMC), 1979. "The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce consisting of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. A masterpiece of satiric art, here are collected his brilliant epigrammatic swipes at Amrican delusions, illusions, follies, and foibles --- as pointed today as when it first appeared in 1908. The lexicon was written over three decades as a series of installments for magazines and newspapers. Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and then in a more complete version as The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, though he was not the first writer to use amusing definitions as a format for satire. In 1973, the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration…
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