Publisher's Synopsis
A great gag gift, The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is a repository of brutally frank and unusually cynical descriptions for popular words and phrases. Initially, it appeared piecemeal in his California newspaper and was later compiled into a volume in his collected works. He was a writer of supernatural stories in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. His stories were published in two volumes: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1892) and Can Such Things Be? (1893). The last we know of him was when he traveled to strife-torn Mexico in 1913. The Devil's Dictionary remains his most famous work.
This illustrated 2020 version by V. Subhash:
- uses the original text by Bierce in its unabridged form
- including the errors and foreign-language text from the printed version
- excluding instances of '[sic]' (but marked in grayscale) and some errors found in the Project Guttenberg extract
- excluding three words involving Islamic faith (strictly for health reasons)
- reordering of two out-of-order words
- is illustrated with caricatures of the current climate of political correctness, mainstream media fake news, intolerance of contrarian views, promotion of Socialism/Communism and other divide-and-rule tactics that play into the hands of the globalist kleptocracy
- has the easy-on-the-eye look of any new dictionary
- modern fonts
- two-column pages
- starting and ending words in the header and footer of each page
A note to students: Most of the names attributed to quotations and written works in the dictionary are not real.
WARNING: If you consider yourself as woke, liberal, Leftie, Progressive, Socialist, Communist, Feminist... then this book is not for you.
