{"title":"Ambrose Bierce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmbrose Bierce\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique blend of sharp wit and dark imagination, weaving tales that span the realms of humour, horror, and the supernatural. Readers can dive into \u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e for his satirical and cynical take on language, or explore eerie narratives like \u003cem\u003eThe Damned Thing\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ways of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e where suspense and the uncanny intertwine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis stories often blur the line between reality and the macabre, capturing the complexities of human nature with a sardonic edge. 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Over 100 years later, Bierce's redefinitions still give us pause for thought—making for a timely new edition of this irreverent and provocative satire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDIPLOMACY, n.\u003c\/b\u003e The patriotic art of lying for one's country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 journalistic career that would see him liked and loathed in equal measure—and earn him the title of 'the wickedest man in San Francisco'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his column, Bierce, a contemporary of Mark Twain, brought his biting black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words, writing deliberate mistranslations of the vocabulary of the establishment, the Church, and the politics of his day, and shining a sardonic light on hypocrisy and deception. These columns formed the beginnings of a dictionary, first published in 1906 as \u003ci\u003eThe Cynic's Word Book\u003c\/i\u003e. 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