The Devil's Dictionary

One of 19th-century America's most renowned satirists, Ambrose Bierce authored short stories, essays, fables, poems, and sketches. A popular columnist who wrote for several San Francisco and London newspapers, Bierce's razor-sharp and scathing aphorisms, collected in this unabridged edition, helped earn him the epithets 'Bitter Bierce', 'the Devil's lexicographer' and 'the Wickedest Man in San Francisco'. Begun in 1881 in a weekly paper and continued in a desultory fshion at long intervals until 1906 - in which year it was published as a book with the title "The Cynic's Word Book" - it was later reissued under its preferred title in 1911. 254p.