Originally the food of peasants too poor for meat
Manchester
Elinor Lipman has been creating a singularly delightful and instantly recognizable literary universe
we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of a young girl named Theo
truth told with fiction transporting the reader to a different background
The Devil's Dictionary History_Gift_Guide Originally the food of peasantsHistory, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Self Esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement. These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and