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- catalog abstract "These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.".
- catalog contributor b11227206.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 219 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195126262 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195126270 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "423/.0207 21".
- catalog subject "English language Dictionaries Humor.".
- catalog subject "English language Semantics Humor.".
- catalog subject "PS1097 .D4 1999".
- catalog subject "Vocabulary Humor.".
- catalog title "The devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce ; with an introduction by Roy Morris, Jr.".
- catalog type "text".