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Stories from the Algonquin Round Table “Silly of me to blame it on dates, but so it happened to be. Dammit, it was the Twenties, and we had to be smarty.” – Dorothy Parker The Algonquin Round Table, or “The Vicious Circle” as it was commonly known, came about much like so many social gatherings. A few [...]  The Devil's Dictionary, ISBN: 1934255297 ELPN Press and Special Edition Books are pleased to announce the publication of The Devil’s Dictionary of Ambrose Bierce – Complete and Unabridged – Special Edition, available for pre-order on Amazon. Herein are contained the sardonic definitions published by Ambrose Bierce as The Cynic’s Word Book in 1906; augmented, edited and republished by the illustrious author in 1911 as The Devil’s Dictionary. Unlike other editions which modify, tone down and make moronic additions to Bierce’s original Devil’s Dictionary, presented here are the complete contents of the 1911 edition without deletions, modifications or embellishments, of any kind, which might diminish the impact of the original politically incorrect collection; hence, the redundant descriptive addition to the title as “Complete and Unabridged” which would surely have caused the author to go ballistic if he were still alive. Special Edition Books – Continue reading… Devil’s Dictionary Complete and Unabridged |
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The Devil Is In The Details – Ambrose Bierce
The Devils Dictionary
What had started as a newspaper serialization was first reproduced in book form in 1906 under the title Cynic’s Word Book. A further 500 words were published in 1911 in Volume 7 of The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, this time under the name of The Devil’s Dictionary. This was a name much [...]