{"product_id":"the-devils-dictionary-9780195126266","title":"The Devil's Dictionary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ambrose Bierce | Jr. Morris Roy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dictionaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistory\u003c\/strong\u003e, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. \u003cstrong\u003eMarriage\u003c\/strong\u003e, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. \u003cstrong\u003eSelf-Esteem\u003c\/strong\u003e, n. An erroneous appraisement.\u003cbr\u003e These caustic aphorisms, collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as \u003cem\u003eThe Cynic's Word Book\u003c\/em\u003e (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591334969495,"sku":"9780195126266","price":4853.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195126266.webp?v=1774972517","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-devils-dictionary-9780195126266","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}