The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the …
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The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work: "This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books - The Cynic's This, The Cynic's That, and The Cynic's t'Other. Most of these books were merely stupid, though some of them added the distinction of silliness. Among them, they brought the word "cynic" into disfavor so deep that any book bearing it was discredited in advance of publication."Meantime, too, some of the enterprising humorists of the country had helped themselves to such parts of the work as served their needs, and many of its definitions, anecdotes, phrases and so forth, had become more or less current in popular speech. This explanation is made, not with any pride of priority in trifles, but in simple denial of possible charges of plagiarism, which is no trifle. In merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed - enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang.
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- 5978
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The Shorter Devil's Dictionary
Hardcover, 80 pages
English language
Published Sept. 16, 1998 by Appletree Press (UK).
- ISBN:
- 978-0-86281-632-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 40645107
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...
Hardcover, 386 pages
Published Oct. 20, 2018 by Franklin Classics Trade Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-343-83336-7Copied ISBN!
Seytanin Sözlügü
Paperback, 240 pages
Published Nov. 4, 2014 by Metis Yayinlari.
- ISBN:
- 978-975-342-964-1Copied ISBN!
Le dictionnaire du diable
mass market paperback, 307 pages
French language
Published Nov. 1, 1989 by Rivages.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-86930-294-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1637712
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...
Hardcover, 386 pages
Published Oct. 9, 2018 by Franklin Classics.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-341-87567-3Copied ISBN!
Devil's Dictionary
236 pages
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2021 by West Margin Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5132-8277-0Copied ISBN!
El Diccionario del Diablo
Paperback
Spanish language
Published June 16, 1996 by Valdemar.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7702-159-9Copied ISBN!
The Devil's Dictionary
192 pages
English language
Published 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-6967-1Copied ISBN!
The Devil's Dictionary
272 pages
English language
- ISBN:
- 978-0-554-35392-0Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 5519792
Devil's Dictionary
254 pages
English language
Published April 1, 1998
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85326-364-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 539445
The Devil's Dictionary
192 pages
English language
Published Oct. 20, 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7475-9410-9Copied ISBN!
The enlarged Devil's dictionary
English language
Published Dec. 16, 1971 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-003335-9Copied ISBN!
The Devil's Dictionary
English language
Published Dec. 16, 2015 by Roads.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-909399-60-0Copied ISBN!
The enlarged Devil's dictionary.
300 pages
English language
Published Dec. 16, 1967 by Doubleday.
- OCLC Number:
- 271381
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