{"product_id":"9781851245079","title":"The 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 \u003ci\u003ethe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e.  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":"Bodleian Library, University of Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43182592786493,"sku":"9781851245079","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781851245079_p0.jpg?v=1778760475","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781851245079","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}