Dana Gioia
Forget the Summer of Love. Bierce is the real voice of San Francisco—mordant, worldly, skeptical, and witty.
—The Hungry Mind Review
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Written over three decades as a series of instalments for magazines and newspapers, The Devil's Dictionary is a charmingly eccentric satirical dictionary that tackles all aspects of life with caustic humour and cutting observation. Few are safe as Bierce targets everything from politics (`A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage'), marriage (`A household consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two') and religion (`A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable') to lawyers (`One skilled in circumvention of the law'). This audiobook edition contains over 1,000 entries, combining the complete first edition published in 1911 with definitions attributed to Bierce's earlier `Demon's Dictionary' column.
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Written over three decades as a series of instalments for magazines and newspapers, The Devil's Dictionary is a charmingly eccentric satirical dictionary that tackles all aspects of life with caustic humour and cutting observation. Few are safe as Bierce targets everything from politics (`A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage'), marriage (`A household consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two') and religion (`A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable') to lawyers (`One skilled in circumvention of the law'). This audiobook edition contains over 1,000 entries, combining the complete first edition published in 1911 with definitions attributed to Bierce's earlier `Demon's Dictionary' column.
The Devil's Dictionary
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Written over three decades as a series of instalments for magazines and newspapers, The Devil's Dictionary is a charmingly eccentric satirical dictionary that tackles all aspects of life with caustic humour and cutting observation. Few are safe as Bierce targets everything from politics (`A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage'), marriage (`A household consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two') and religion (`A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable') to lawyers (`One skilled in circumvention of the law'). This audiobook edition contains over 1,000 entries, combining the complete first edition published in 1911 with definitions attributed to Bierce's earlier `Demon's Dictionary' column.
Written over three decades as a series of instalments for magazines and newspapers, The Devil's Dictionary is a charmingly eccentric satirical dictionary that tackles all aspects of life with caustic humour and cutting observation. Few are safe as Bierce targets everything from politics (`A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage'), marriage (`A household consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two') and religion (`A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable') to lawyers (`One skilled in circumvention of the law'). This audiobook edition contains over 1,000 entries, combining the complete first edition published in 1911 with definitions attributed to Bierce's earlier `Demon's Dictionary' column.
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| BN ID: | 2940159959898 |
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| Publisher: | Naxos Audiobooks |
| Publication date: | 05/25/2023 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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