{"product_id":"devils-dictionary","title":"Devil's Dictionary","description":"Born 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, reliegion, 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-guage 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.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135477301300,"sku":"9780486275420","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/8638\/5972\/files\/imageloader_3681fffb-6da5-45d5-9896-5aec310b4821.jpg?v=1759075712","url":"https:\/\/worldcaribbeanbooks.com\/products\/devils-dictionary","provider":"World Caribbean Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}