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Title: Essential reading
Review: for any budding humorist or slayer of sacred cows. Bierce punctures pretensions, lampoons customs, and gleefully laughs heartily at the human race and late 19th/early 20th century culture in general. Clever and sublime definitions of everything from birth and youth, to dining, drinking, divorce and death. Occasionally you won't get one or two of the references to the time period this was written, but use the context and try to catch the punchlines of a man who should be more celebrated as an American treasure ranking with Twain.
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