The Devil's Dictionary: Definitions for a cynic

Ambrose Bierce’s gleefully bitter lexicon and his Fantastic Fables — the funniest, blackest wit in American letters.

In this collection

• When Brother Peetree Prayed
• A Political Violet
• The Puzzler
• Cakes and Ale
• Enough is as Good as a Feast
• The Return of the Representative
• Advice to Little Girls
• How Payne Bucked Up
• The Revolt
• Igo and Ago
• Jeeves in the Springtime
• Piano Torture
• The Mermaid Club
• The Wolf Sings
• Adrian. a in Acclimatization
• Publishers' Preface
• To a Dejected Poet
• Frogs
• Fine Feathers
• The Secret
• Blinky Bill Grows Up
• On some Respectable Snobs Ii
• How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other Woodcuts
• Moral Swindlers
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