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The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (Paperback, 1993)

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ISBN : 0486275426. Authors : Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary (Thrift Editions). Title : The Devil's Dictionary (Thrift Editions). Classification Notes Condition : Like New. List Price (MSRP) : 1.90.

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Over 1,000 barbed and brilliant definitions. Congratulations are the civility of envy, a historian is a broad-gauged gossip, many more. H. L. Mencken called these some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language. 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, religion, 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-gauge 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.