The Cynic's Word Book - Ambrose Bierce - Books - Lulu Press - 9781435749320 - July 26, 2008
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The Cynic's Word Book

Ambrose Bierce

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The Cynic's Word Book

One of Bierce's most famous works. Originally an occasional newspaper item which was first published in book form in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book. It consists of satirical definitions of English words which lampoon cant and political double-talk. Under the entry "leonine", meaning a single line of poetry with an internal rhyming scheme, he included an apocryphal couplet written by the apocryphal Bella Peeler Silcox (Ella Wheeler Wilcox) in which an internal rhyme is achieved in both lines only by mispronouncing the rhyming words: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" Later published as The Devil's Dictionary, the title Bierce himself preferred to The Cynic's Word Book.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 26, 2008
ISBN13 9781435749320
Publishers Lulu Press
Pages 244
Dimensions 108 × 178 × 13 mm   ·   181 g
Language English  

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