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Book Synopsis The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Horror written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXAMPLES: Conservative (n.) A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Egotist (n.) A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Lawyer (n.) One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Devil's Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timeless work of biting satirical wit presents an A-to-Z lexicon of common English terms, and what we actually mean by them. The renowned author Ambrose Bierce produced classic works in a range of genres, from fantasy and horror to realistic tales drawn from his experience in the Civil War. Among his most beloved books is The Devil’s Dictionary, a work of wry humor that remains one of the funniest assessments of American language and manners. Through epigrams, essays, vignettes, and verse, Bierce skewers religion, class, politics, romance, and more. Included, you’ll find such pithy definitions as: · 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. And many others.
Book Synopsis The Devils Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devils Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce "I mean to fall to earth," said he. The west wind, rising, made him veer. "Eastward," said he, "I now shall steer." The east wind rose with greater force. Said he: "'Twere wise to change my course." With equal power they contend. He said: "My judgment I suspend." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included. Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.
Book Synopsis Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219) by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga," is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. Can Such Things Be? brings together "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "The Damned Thing," "The Moonlit Road," and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. The Devil's Dictionary, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In Bits of Autobiography, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable "What I Saw of Shiloh," he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Book Synopsis The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Bierce includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Bierce’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Book Synopsis The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: The devil's dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: The devil's dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Devils Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devils Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devils Dictionary By Ambrose Bierce
Book Synopsis The Devil's Dictionary by : E.C. Tubb
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary written by E.C. Tubb and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of six tales of dark fantasy by a master storyteller. What happens when an occult scholar obtains an ancient grimoire and uses it to summon up the Devil? ... Three tramps find a metal vessel akin to Aladdin’s Lamp and release a Jinn who grants them a wish they might come to regret... The excavation of an ancient dolman releases an imprisoned evil... Could anyone trust the proprietor of the strange little shop who claimed to be a dealer in dreams? ... The mission of mercy that caused a space traveller to disappear... What happens when a man’s memories are utterly destroyed? ... Classic reading by a master of the weird tale -- and the author of the Dumarest of Terra series!
Book Synopsis The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book) by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a complete collection of 4 Classics stories. The Damned Thing is a story focuses on how the human race takes their views of nature for granted, and how there may be things in the natural world that the human eye cannot see or the human ear cannot hear. An Occurrence at Owl takes place during the war of the 1860's between the American states of the North and the states of the South. A group of soldiers is hanging a Southern farm owner for trying to stop Northern military movements across the Owl Creek Bridge. In the last moments of his life, the Southern prisoner dreams he has escaped; and everything that happens in the story is really only the work of the prisoner's brain just before he dies. One of Bierce's most famous works is his much-quoted book, The Devil's Dictionary, originally a newspaper serialization which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. It offers an interesting reinterpretation of the English language in which cant and political double-talk are neatly lampooned. Chickamauga was first published in 1889. It's about an innocent child who stumbles into unspeakable horror during the battle. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. He spoke out against oppression and supported civil and religious freedoms. He also wrote numerous Civil War stories from first-hand experience. Many of his works are ranked among other esteemed American authors’ like Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain.
Book Synopsis Civil War Stories by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book Civil War Stories written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.
Book Synopsis Fantastic Fables by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book Fantastic Fables written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1898 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ghost and Horror Stories by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book Ghost and Horror Stories written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four grotesque horror tales written by Ambrose Bierce, the nineteenth-century journalist known for his cynicism
Book Synopsis The Damned Thing by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Damned Thing written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of the candle to get a stronger light upon it. The shadow of the book would then throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number of faces and figures; for besides the reader, eight other men were present. Seven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent and motionless, and, the room being small, not very far from the table. By extending an arm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the table, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. He was dead.
Book Synopsis The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Penguin Modern Classics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dictionary, begun as a weekly column when Bierce was a journalist, and developed into a full-scale satire, is, as he says, a punishment for rascals. Bierce became known as the 'laughing devil' of the San Francisco news media and his lampoons on religion, marriage, politics and society made him both the literary delight and the dreaded scourge of the whole Pacific coast. Written with wit, rather than humour, to be savoured by those 'enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment', The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary demonstrates that if Mark Twain was the great satirist of Southern life, Ambrose Bierce was his equal in the West.
Book Synopsis The Damned Thing by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Damned Thing written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description get at the truth of the matter? At least one witness is convinced otherwise. A story of the paranormal that was once loosely adapted for an episode of the television series Masters of Horror.
