The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
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The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical lexicon, a work of the American journalist Ambrose Bierce, whose literary face include as a short story writer, fabulist, satirist, and literary critic. Among his numerous short stories notable are The Boarded Window, An Inhabitant of Carcosa, The Haunted Valley, A Diagnosis of Death, and An Affair of Outposts.
The Devil's Dictionary provides wickedly clever definitions to the everyday used vocabularies of 1600 words. This is considered as a classic work of satire in the calibers of popular satirical works of Mark Twain, Thurber and Mencken. Ambrose, a master of pure English, had written this to News Letter as a reentry measure to his previous journalistic post.
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