Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged
(2013)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2013
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780486146898 (electronic bk.) MWT11605256, 0486146898 (electronic bk.) 11605256
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen." "Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law." "Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's voice." These and more than 1,000 other comic definitions appear in Ambrose Bierce's wicked satire of conventional dictionaries. An ideal gift for lovers of language, this classic of American humor features a wealth of quips

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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