Ambrose Bierce (Author)
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842–1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America’s
most renowned satirists. The author of short stories, essays,
fables, poems, and sketches, he was a popular columnist and wrote
for several San Francisco and London newspapers during his
forty-year journalism career.
David E. Schultz (Editor)
DAVID E. SCHULTZ is a technical editor. He is coeditor, with S. T.
Joshi, of both A Sole Survivor, a collection of Ambrose Bierce's
autobiographical writings, and Lord of a Visible World, an
autobiography-in-letters of H. P. Lovecraft.
S. T. Joshi (Editor)
S. T. JOSHI is a freelance writer and editor. He is the editor of
The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce and author of H. P.
Lovecraft: A Life.
Bierce was America's first realist writer, but, unlike realism's
later practitioners, he knew something about reality—it's really
funny.
*P. J. O'Rourke*
This carefully edited manuscript will add immeasurably to Bierce
studies.
*University of Nevada-Las Vegas*
This is a work of genuinely impressive scholarship and will
undoubtedly become the authoritative text for Bierce’s Devil’s
Dictionary.
*University of Missouri-Columbia*
Splendidly produced.
*London Times Literary Supplement*
A compilation of all of Bierce's satirical definitions published
over a forty-year period, this latest version of the Dictionary ('A
malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language
and making it hard and inelastic') merits a wide readership both
within and without the Academy ('A modern school where football is
taught').
*American Literary Review*
Most readers and biographers have agreed with Schultz and Joshi
that The Devil's Dictionary is 'quintessential Bierce.' For the
serious student of Bierce's diabolical lexicon, their beautiful new
edition . . . will be a delight.
*Sewanee Review*
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