The unabridged devil's dictionary
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Description: "A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. 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.".

"All of Bierce's known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi's introduction ranges across the book's writing and publishing history, while their supporting materials focus on individual definitions.

In fact, this is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry."--BOOK JACKET.