Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: dictionary, devil
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-01-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1582343802
ISBN-13: 9781582343808

Bierce’s classic work of satirical wit and Steadman’s pointed pen redefine the way we see even the seemingly simplest of terms.Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.Bride, n.: A woman with a great future behind her.Consult, v: To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on.Ambrose Bierce’s "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses, and vignettes targets the religious, the romantic, the political, and the economic, in equal measure. The book you need to define both friends and enemies, The Devil’

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: fables, fantastic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0766185850
ISBN-13: 9780766185852

1898. A wonderful collection of 245 tongue-in-cheek fables from the bitter pen of Ambrose Bierce. Bierce, who is one of the rare masters like Aesop and La Fontaine, often personified objects, animals and even abstract concepts to reinforce his satire.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: sky, horseman, gods, son
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $16.75
ISBN-10: 1110604793
ISBN-13: 9781110604791

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: fables, fantastic
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-03-08
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1426477236
ISBN-13: 9781426477232

A MORAL Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: dictionary, devil
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1420930044
ISBN-13: 9781420930047

Ambrose Bierce’s great satirical work, "The Devil’s Dictionary" is not a real dictionary, but rather a lampoon of the English language. The definitions provide satirical, witty and often politically pointed representations of the words that is seeks to "define".

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Obscure Press
Keywords: fables, fantastic
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-05-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1409703045
ISBN-13: 9781409703044

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: dictionary, devil
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2003-01-23
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0766135314
ISBN-13: 9780766135314

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."