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".
| ISBN: | 9780141185927 |
| Publication date: | 28th June 2001 |
| Author: | Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 323 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Dictionaries Humour |