| Devil's Dictionary Contributor(s): Bierce, Ambrose (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162584408 ISBN-13: 9781162584409 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Humor | Form - Parodies - Reference | Dictionaries |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.43 lbs) 378 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1941. The most famous dictionary after the OED and Webster's. The renowned author and journalist provides hilariously witty and wise definitions for common words in our language. For example: Abdication - an act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne; Abrupt - sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption." |