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| The Devil's Dictionary | 
| Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Filiquarian
Category: Book
Buy New: $7.99
New (13) Collectible (2) from $7.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 684888
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 282
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1599869764
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9781599869766
ASIN: 1599869764
Publication Date: November 7, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 review of the Devil's Dictionary May 16, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sharp-wittewd and pointed "defitions" of common day words from the 1800's that still hold humor and truth.
 An Authentic Classic February 8, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book. It shows that Bierce was a truly modern realist with a sense of humor. Bierce's definitions were pithy and funny one hundred years ago, and they still are.
This particular edition is a reprint of Bierce's original authorized edition which is becoming hard to find. Most publishers seem to feel the need to delete some of the politically incorrect definitions that were part of the time and place of America around the turn of the twentieth century. Others can't seem to help themselves; they add their own definitions which are often not funny or clever and are nowhere near authentic. It is like having an amateur artist add a few brushstrokes, here and there, to a Rembrandt painting. This edition does not do that injustice to this wonderful book.
Good Read January 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It was an excellent read and I could not put it down. Very tantalizing for anyone who prefers to be pulled into a story.
A great addition to your collection January 11, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well worth having in your personal collection -- very entertaining. :)
an ABRIDGED version March 13, 2005
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
I'd skip this and purchase the UNABRIDGED version. Some of the definitions left out in this version are among Bierce's best. Also, the complete work is not so long: no reason to abridge something that in full length is only 100 or so pages long.
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