Devil's Dictionary

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce`s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. Over several years these were then compiled and expanded into entries for a mock dictionary originally published as The Cynic`s Word Book. One of the most popular satirical works of American literature, The Devil`s Dictionary - here published in its most complete 1911 version - brilliantly lays bare the hypocrisies of American society and displays a razor-sharp wit to rival that of Bierce`s contemporary Mark Twain.