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 \"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.\"