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Little is sacred and few are safe, for bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. This is identical to the online version on the website, with almost 1,000 entries. An onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, the unabridged devil s dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Ambrose bierce was an american cynic a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are. Download fib and the axe of fury risen evil 1 ebook for free in pdf and epub format. The devils dictionary by ambrose bierce full text free. Download now ambrose bierce is well known to readers as a master of the short story and the author of the devils dictionary 1906.
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