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The Devil's Dictionary Summary
| The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881. In this book , Ambrose Bierce skewers far more the world of politics, but it is the political realm where Bierce's observations are astonishingly and depressingly relevant a century later. Please Note: This book is in easy to read true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at Chapter Headings and is printable. |
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Summary: History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. This sarcastic book was first published as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906 and later reissued under its preferred title in 1911, as the Devil's Dictionary. |
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The Devil's Dictionary -- Adobe PDF ebook. Ambrose Bierce’s classic work. |
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| A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. |
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| The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881. In this book , Ambrose Bierce skewers far more the world of politics, but it is the political realm where Bierce's observations are astonishingly and depressingly relevant a century later. Please Note: This book is in easy to read true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at Chapter Headings and is fully printable. |
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| Leaf this sarcastic dictionary through and stop whenever you find a word that interests you... Ex : FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. |
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| The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. Meantime, too, some of the enterprising humorists of the country had helped themselves to such parts of the work as served their needs, and many of its definitions, anecdotes, phrases and so forth, had become more or less current in popular speech. This explanation is made, not with any pride of priority in trifles, but in simple denial of possible charges of plagiarism, which is no trifle. In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed -- enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang. |
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