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From: St. Joseph News-Press
Date: 20020118
Author:FRED SLATER

Although most of it was written more than a century ago, Ambrose Bierce's "The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary," from the University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., reads as well today as it did when first published. David E Schultz and S.J. Joshi edited the book.

Bierce, (1842-1914?) was a journalist, satirist and short story writer, whose realistic Civil War tales were rated as high as those of Stephen Crane. According to legend, Bierce visited St. Joseph and may even have worked on The Gazette but, so far, there is no proof of that surmise. The date of his death is uncertain as he ...

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