{"product_id":"the-complete-devils-dictionary-by-ambrose-bierce-vintage-trade-paperback-1965-american-century","title":"The Complete Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1965 • Hill \u0026 Wang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Complete Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1965] HILL \u0026amp; WANG AMERICAN CENTURY SERIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike new and seemingly unread.  Discoloration to corner of rear cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReads like new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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, reliegion, literature and the arts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Apocalypse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48709201920249,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/3103\/1574\/files\/devilsdictionary-1.jpg?v=1784921585","url":"https:\/\/bookshopapocalypse.com\/products\/the-complete-devils-dictionary-by-ambrose-bierce-vintage-trade-paperback-1965-american-century","provider":"Bookshop Apocalypse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}