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The Devil’s Dictionary

“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time …

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Fathers and Sons

One of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev’s finest work