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The Devil's Dictionary

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Devil's Dictionary

By Ambrose Bierce

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About the book

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's countryIn 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for theUnion army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, and then for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. Bierce was launched on a journalistic career that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure - and earn him the title of `the wickedest man in San Francisco'.In his column, Bierce, a contemporary of Mark Twain, brought ...Show more

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9781851245079

Publisher

Bodleian Library

Published year

2018

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The Devil's Dictionary

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Hardcover

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