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Title: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, David E. Schultz, S. T. Joshi ISBN: 0-8203-2401-9 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I love sardonic humor
Comment: I'll admit it, I'm a tech dork. I work for an Internet company and this book is perfect for tag and signature lines for email. Although on a more serious note the definitions found here are not the dictionary definitions but the definitions that modern day society has reflected upon them. While a word, item, or identification for something may mean one thing in the dicitonary we tend to stereotype or re-clasify it in our times as something completly different. Read the exerpts for some good examples. Whil the book was compiled of pieces written back in the turn of the 20th centurey a lot of the sarcastic or sardonic definitions still hold true. Definatly an interseting book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing Satire on Society
Comment: Ambrose Bierce, in this hilarious book, satirizes all aspects of human behavior. This lexicon that he has created provides often true insight in to the tacit meanings of otherwise benign words. For example, PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. This book is a must-get.
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Title: The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Roy Morris Jr. ISBN: 0195126270 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins ISBN: 0803260717 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce by A. Bierce ISBN: 0486207684 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1963 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce ISBN: 0486207676 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1964 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris ISBN: 0195126289 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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