{"product_id":"the-devils-dictionary-9780486275420","title":"The Devil's Dictionary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ambrose Bierce\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dictionaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Ohio in 1842, journalist, short-story writer and critic Ambrose Bierce developed into one of this country's most celebrated and cynical wits -- a merciless \"American Swift\" whose literary barbs were aimed at folly, self-delusion, politics, business, religion, literature and the arts. In this splendid \"dictionary\" of epigrams, essays, verses and vignettes, you'll find over 1,000 pointed definitions, e.g. Congratulation (\"The civility of envy\"), Coward (\"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs\") and Historian (\"A broad-gauge gossip\"). Anyone who likes to laugh will love The Devil's Dictionary. Anyone looking for a bon mot to enliven their next speech, paper or conversation will have a field day thumbing through what H. L. Mencken called \"some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45153207976087,"sku":"9780486275420","price":637.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780486275420.webp?v=1767661075","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-devils-dictionary-9780486275420","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}