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The Devil's Dictionary (Illustrated): With contemporary illustrations and the look of any new dictionary (modern fonts, two-column pages, ...)
Contributor(s): Subhash, V. (Illustrator), Bierce, Ambrose (Author)
ISBN:     ISBN-13: 9798584686161
Publisher: Independently Published
OUR PRICE:   $7.20  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: December 2020
* Not available - Not in print at this time *
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Lexicography
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.5 lbs) 162 pages
 
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A great gag gift, The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is a repository of brutally frank and unusually cynical descriptions for popular words and phrases. Initially, it appeared piecemeal in his California newspaper and was later compiled into a volume in his collected works. He was a writer of supernatural stories in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. His stories were published in two volumes: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1892) and Can Such Things Be? (1893). The last we know of him was when he traveled to strife-torn Mexico in 1913. The Devil's Dictionary remains his most famous work.

This illustrated 2020 version by V. Subhash:

  • uses the original text by Bierce in its unabridged form
    • including the errors and foreign-language text from the printed version
    • excluding instances of '[sic]' (but marked in grayscale) and some errors found in the Project Guttenberg extract
    • excluding three words involving Islamic faith (strictly for health reasons)
    • reordering of two out-of-order words
  • is illustrated with caricatures of the current climate of political correctness, mainstream media fake news, intolerance of contrarian views, promotion of Socialism/Communism and other divide-and-rule tactics that play into the hands of the globalist kleptocracy
  • has the easy-on-the-eye look of any new dictionary
    • modern fonts
    • two-column pages
    • starting and ending words in the header and footer of each page

A note to students: Most of the names attributed to quotations and written works in the dictionary are not real.

WARNING: If you consider yourself as woke, liberal, Leftie, Progressive, Socialist, Communist, Feminist... then this book is not for you.