{"product_id":"ambrose-bierce-the-devils-dictionary-9781598531022","title":"Ambrose Bierce : The Devil''s Dictionary,","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ambrose Bierce | S. T. Joshi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Library Of America\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Humorous - Dark Humor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. \u003ci\u003eIn the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians)\u003c\/i\u003e, his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces \"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge\" and \"Chickamauga,\" is suffused with a fiercely ironic sense of the horror and randomness of war. \u003ci\u003eCan Such Things Be?\u003c\/i\u003e brings together \"The Death of Halpin Frayser,\" \"The Damned Thing,\" \"The Moonlit Road,\" and other tales of terror that make Bierce the genre's most significant American practitioner between Poe and Lovecraft. \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, the brilliant lexicon of subversively cynical definitions on which Bierce worked for decades, displays to the full his corrosive wit. In \u003ci\u003eBits of Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, the series of memoirs that includes the memorable \"What I Saw of Shiloh,\" he recreates his experiences in the war and its aftermath. The volume is rounded out with a selection of his best uncollected stories. Acclaimed Bierce scholar S. T. Joshi provides detailed notes and a newly researched chronology of Bierce's life and mysterious disappearance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","brand":"PRH USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47273954312343,"sku":"9781598531022","price":2340.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781598531022.webp?v=1773380460","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ambrose-bierce-the-devils-dictionary-9781598531022","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}