{"product_id":"devils-dictionary","title":"Devil's Dictionary","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHistory\u003c\/strong\u003e, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. \u003cstrong\u003eMarriage\u003c\/strong\u003e, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. \u003cstrong\u003eSelf-Esteem\u003c\/strong\u003e, n. An erroneous appraisement.\u003cbr\u003e These caustic aphorisms, collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as \u003cem\u003eThe Cynic's Word Book\u003c\/em\u003e (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today.","brand":"Jr Roy Morris, Ambrose Bierce","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46348015927532,"sku":"9780195126266","price":63.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46348015960300,"sku":"9780486275420","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780195126266_b581d7cb-087a-4cf0-a0f9-f86b4c054859.jpg?v=1744107649","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/devils-dictionary","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}