{"product_id":"devil-s-dictionary-book-ambrose-bierce-9780486204871","title":"The 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":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49897097953553,"sku":"CINB000GWQJ5CG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50133161541905,"sku":"CINB000GWQJ5CVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50949983076625,"sku":"GOR005317197","price":3.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51092222476561,"sku":"GOR008531159","price":3.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103527366929,"sku":"CIN0486204871A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486204871.jpg?v=1751040018","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/devil-s-dictionary-book-ambrose-bierce-9780486204871","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}