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Devil's Dictionary The Patriotic Art of Lying for One's Country
ISBN: HB: 9781851245079, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2018
256 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, and then for William Randolph Hearst's "San Francisco Examiner". Bierce was launched on a journ...
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Ware's Victorian Dictionary of Slang and Phrase
ISBN: PB: 9781851244485, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
288 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm
Acutely aware of the changes in English usage at the close of the Victorian era, the lexicographer James Redding Ware (1832-1909) decided to record for posterity new and archaic words and phrases from all walks of life, from the curses in common use...
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