{"product_id":"the-devils-dictionary-dover-thrift-editions-literary-collections-0486275426","title":"The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0486275426\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ambrose Bierce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\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":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51930944799008,"sku":"NEW0486275426","price":9.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-devils-dictionary-dover-thrift-editions-literary-collections-0486275426","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}