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# The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections)

**Brand:** ambrose bierce
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## Customer Reviews

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    The Dover Thrift Editions paperback is UNABRIDGED and highly recommended
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2011*

The book easily rates five stars for its humor, insight and pithiness.  Indispensable.The Dover Thrift Editions paperback is, indeed, UNABRIDGED.  Reviewers' comments disfavoring abridged editions are likely well-taken but misapplied to the Dover edition.  Amazon's ill-conceived policy of mixing and sloppily denominating reviews of various editions is presumably once again the culprit.I have a copy of the comprehensively annotated University of Georgia edition, but prefer the easier to use, bare-bones Dover edition.  The UGA edition contains a dry, academic history of the work and includes appendices featuring notes and additional definitions that Bierce himself chose to omit when he supervised the 1911 publication of his collected works.  There's really not much need for a pricier copy.  In fact, the Dover edition's format is superior in its use of boldface for the word entries and a smaller typeface to present Bierce's illustrative stories, poems and quotations.  Like the author, it is also a triumph of economy, taking only 139 pages to present the exact core content that the UGA edition requires over 100 more to set forth (with its use of larger fonts and broader line spacing).Buy the maximum three copies of the Dover for the price of one of the other editions and give the other two away.  You and your friends will be glad you did.

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    this is but one facet of a uniquely American jewel
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2014*

some samples:  advice: the smallest current coin;  brute: see husband;  cannibal: a gastronome of the old school;  court fool: the plaintiff;  distance: one thing the rich allow the poor to call theirs and keep;  enough: all there is in the world if you like it;  guillotine: a device at which the French shrug with good reason;  hash: no definition -- no one knows what hash is;  hearse: Death's baby-carriage;  ocean: an expanse of water covering c 2/3 of a world designed for humans, who have no gills;  omen: a sign that something will happen if nothing happens;  USA Presidency: the greased pig in the field of USA politics  ¶ this is a witty, insightful collection to be read in spare moments, not all at once.  ¶ this Dover Thrift Edition is well produced in c 8pt type, small but clear; some negative reviews here must allude to lesser productions.  ¶ Bierce's macabre short stories are no laughing matter.  I highly recommend those also -- not only `An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' but his oeuvre.

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    A great read for writers
  

*by R***L on Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2016*

For decades I have read and been amused by the cynical definitions from Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary." Finally I decided to get a copy. Though much of it is outdated from the 1800s, there were more than enough gems to be worth purchasing it. Things like: "Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting." "Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a conflict of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." And, "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, Bain is so highly regarded that it is exempted from the cares of (public) office." There are numerous small poems illustrating his definitions by poets I never heard of leading me to suspect they were written by Bierce himself, as doubtless were the many fanciful anecdotes. Well worth a writer's time.Robert A. HallAuthor: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic

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