by Ambrose Bierce · Dover Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486275420
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«The Devil's Dictionary» is Ambrose Bierce's satirical dictionary, published by Dover Publications in paperback (144 pages, in English).
The book gathers epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes in which Bierce, a renowned American humorist, attacks with irony folly, self-deception, politics, religion and the arts. Definitions such as «felicitación: the courtesy of envy» show his biting wit and explain his place among the classics of satire.
Work originally published in 1911; this 1993 edition belongs to the Dover Thrift Editions collection.
For readers interested in satire, acid humor and classics of American literature.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that "he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire." His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
