# The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary

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- Book: [The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary](https://www.bookquiver.com/ambrose-bierce/the-enlarged-devils-dictionary) ([The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ambrose-bierce/the-enlarged-devils-dictionary.md))
- Authors: [Ambrose Bierce](https://www.bookquiver.com/ambrose-bierce)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-592-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2001-06-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the " laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H. L. Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this " dictionary".