Bøker av Ambrose Bierce

Volume 12 of the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (title: "In Motley: Kings of Beasts; Two Admissions; and Miscellaneous") is a facsimile reprint of the 250-copy limited edition of 1912.

"The Devil's Dictionary," by Ambrose Bierce, is a satirical book first published in 1911. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk. "The Devil's Dictionary" has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Recent examples include "The Computer Contradictionary" and "The Devil's Dictionary X."

"The Devil's Dictionary," by Ambrose Bierce, is a satirical book first published in 1911. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk. "The Devil's Dictionary" has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Recent examples include "The Computer Contradictionary" and "The Devil's Dictionary X."

Volume 4 of the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (title: "Shapes of Clay") is a facsimile reprint of the 250-copy limited edition of 1910.

Volume 5 of the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (title: "Black Beetles in Amber") is a facsimile reprint of the 250-copy limited edition of 1911.

Volume III of the "Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce" (title: "Can Such Things Be?") is a facsimile reprint of the 250-copy limited edition of 1910.

A classic quick-witted dictionary.

A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, this dictionary offers 1600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit that allows our failings and excesses to shine forth.

An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary".