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The book is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which bierce worked for decades. The unabridged devils dictionary,a satirical book first published in 1911, offers. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title the cynics word book, a name which the author had. The devils dictionary by ambrose bierce, paperback. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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