Franklin LIbrary: AMBROSE BIERCE: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY: CYNICAL SATIRE

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1980. Bound in red leather, the book has red moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, and gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Ambrose Bierce, who lived from 1842-1914, was born in OHIO, served in the CIVIL WAR and became a brilliant and bitter journalist in San Francisco. "The Devil's Dictionary" consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. Written over three decades as installments for magazines and newspapers, Bierce's witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years. The book has been described as "howlingly funny" and a Wall Street colunist, Jason Zweig called the book "probably the most brilliant work of satire written in American and one of the greatest in world literature. An example: ABSOLUTE: A sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. "ABSTAINER" is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. "Achievement" is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust." A DULLARD is a member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards "came in with Adam." The DRUIDS were "Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurements of human sacrifice." PROPHECY is "the art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery." TWICE is "once too often." 315 pages---a RARE and HILARIOUS volume! I offer combined shipping.

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Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

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