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Ambrose Bierce

The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary

WITH 851 NEWLY DISCOVERED WORDS AND DEFINITIONS ADDED TO THE PREVIOUS THOUSAND-WORD COLLECTION
Ambrose Bierce - Author
Ernest Jerome Hopkins - Editor
John Myers Myers - Preface by
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 336 pages | ISBN 9780141185927 | 28 Jun 2001 | Penguin Classic
The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary".
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