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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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Devil's Dictionary: Satirical Definitions of Everyday Words
2023, Arcturus Publishing, Sirius
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Devil's Dictionary: Literature Heritage Series
2022, Independently Published
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Devil's Dictionary(a Classics Illustrated Edition)
2022, Independently Published
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Devil's Dictionary 19 Century Book: Illustrated Edition
2021, Independently Published
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Diccionario Del Diablo - (Classiques du Monde) Ilustrado
2021, Independently Published
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Devil's Dictionary: The 1906 Satirical Lexicon
2021, Independently Published
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Devil's Dictionary (classics Illustrated) Edition
2021, Independently Published
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Ambrose Bierce the Devil's Dictionary(Annotated Edition)
2021, Independently Published
in English
9798538982356
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Diccionario Del Diablo - (Classiques du Monde) Ilustrado
2021, Independently Published
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Devil's Dictionary: Great Domain Works Reintroduced by Polk Properties Publishing
2020, Independently Published
in English
9798614679330
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Devil's Dictionary : (Aberdeen Classics Collection)
2020, Independently Published
in English
9798674271536
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Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: A-Z Reinterpretations of the English Language
2020, Independently Published
in English
9798698056263
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Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: Unabridged,devil,Dictionary,Devil's
2020, Independently Published
in English
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The Devil's Dictionary
Jan 15, 2019, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
hardcover
1851245073 9781851245079
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Diccionario del diablo
Apr 27, 2019, Independently published, Independently Published
paperback
in Spanish
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Devil's Dictionary: Satirical Dictionary
2019, Independently Published
in English
1795140798 9781795140799
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The Devil's Dictionary
Jan 24, 2019, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
1508476535 9781508476535
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Unabridged Devil's Dictionary: The Cynic's Word Book - Satirical, Ironic and Humorous Definitions
2018, Lulu Press, Inc.
in English
1387977482 9781387977482
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Unabridged Devil's Dictionary: The Cynic's Word Book - Satirical, Ironic and Humorous Definitions
2018, Lulu Press, Inc.
in English
1387977490 9781387977499
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Devil's Dictionary
Oct 20, 2018, Franklin Classics Trade Press
hardcover
0343833360 9780343833367
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The Devil's Dictionary
Apr 06, 2018, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
198757625X 9781987576252
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The Devil's Dictionary
Jun 27, 2018, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Devil's Dictionary
Oct 09, 2018, Franklin Classics
hardcover
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El diccionario del diablo
Feb 10, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
in Spanish
1543032923 9781543032925
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Devil's Dictionary: By Ambrose Bierce - Illustrated
2017, Independently Published
in English
1521923434 9781521923436
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Apr 01, 2017, University of Georgia Press
hardcover
0820352780 9780820352787
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Apr 25, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
1545583749 9781545583746
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Devil's Dictionary: By Ambrose Bierce - Illustrated
2017, Independently Published
in English
1520855710 9781520855714
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El diccionario del diablo- rústica
May 10, 2017, GALAXIA, Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.
paperback
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The Devil's Dictionary
Jun 26, 2017, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
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Devil's Dictionary: Complete and Unabridged
2013, Dover Publications, Incorporated
in English
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Devil's Dictionary: Complete and Unabridged
2013, Dover Publications, Incorporated
in English
0486146898 9780486146898
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Devil's Dictionary [Facsimile Edition]
2008, Wildside Press, LLC
in English
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The Devil's Dictionary
January 20, 2007, NuVision Publications
Paperback
in English
1595479406 9781595479402
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The Devil's Dictionary
September 17, 2007, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Hardcover
in English
1599866870 9781599866871
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The Devil's Dictionary (Large Print)
January 1, 2007, Echo Library
Hardcover
in English
- Lrg edition
1847027911 9781847027917
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Diccionario del Diablo
March 15, 2007, Editorial Lectorum
Paperback
in Spanish
- Primera edicion edition
9707322020 9789707322028
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The Devil's Dictionary
January 2, 2007, El Paso Norte Press
Paperback
in English
- Unabridged edition
1934255025 9781934255025
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The Devil\'s Dictionary (Large Print Edition)
April 3, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback
in English
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The Devil's Dictionary
May 2, 2006, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Paperback
in English
1599869764 9781599869766
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El Diccionario Del Diablo/ The Devil's Dictionary (Reflexiones / Reflections)
June 30, 2005, Longseller
Paperback
in Spanish
- Tra edition
9875504149 9789875504141
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El diccionario del diablo
September 28, 2005, Edimat Libros
Paperback
in Spanish
- Tra edition
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The Devil's Dictionary: The Lexicon of Choice for Satirists, Cynics, Skeptics, and other Enlightened Souls: A 365-Day Calendar for 2006
July 30, 2005, Pomegranate (Cal)
Calendar
in English
- Page/Day edition
0764931156 9780764931154
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The Devil's Dictionary: Extracted From Webster's Online Dictionary - The Rosetta Edition
March 16, 2004, Icon Reference
in English
0597845050 9780597845055
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Diccionario del Diablo
May 2004, Andromeda Publications
Paperback
in Spanish
9507221174 9789507221170
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The Devil's Dictionary: The Lexicon of Choice for Satirists, Cynics, Skeptics, and other Enlightened Souls : A 365-Day Calendar for 2005
August 2004, Pomegranate (Cal)
Calendar
in English
0764926284 9780764926280
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The Illustrated Devil's Dictionary
2004, Advanced Marketing
Hardcover
in English
1903938627 9781903938621
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The Devil's dictionary
2003, Bloomsbury, Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
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The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (Penguin Modern Classics)
June 28, 2001, Penguin Books Ltd
0141185929 9780141185927
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The unabridged devil's dictionary
2000, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820321966 9780820321967
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The unabridged devil's dictionary
2000, University of Georgia Press
in English
0820321966 9780820321967
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Enlarged Devils Dictionary, the (Twentieth Century Classics)
June 1999, Penguin Books
Hardcover
in Spanish
- New Ed edition
0140182799 9780140182798
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Enlarged Devils Dictionary, the (Twentieth Century Classics)
June 1999, Penguin Books
in Spanish
0140182799 9780140182798
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The Devil's Dictionary
February 1, 1999, Reclam, Ditzingen
Paperback
in German
3150090571 9783150090572
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Diccionario del Diablo
September 1998, Mateos Ediciones
Paperback
in Spanish
8449503868 9788449503863
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Diccionario del Diablo
October 1998, Ediciones Colihue
Paperback
in Spanish
9505818904 9789505818907
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The Shorter Devil's Dictionary
September 1998, Appletree Press (UK)
Hardcover
in English
- New Ed edition
0862816327 9780862816322
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The Devil's Dictionary
April 1, 1998, NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
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The Devil's Dictionary
November 1989, Reprint Services Corp
Hardcover
in English
0685447286 9780685447284
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The Devil's Dictionary
July 1985, Gannon Distributing Company
Library Binding
in English
0883070170 9780883070178
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The enlarged Devil's dictionary.: Research and editing by Ernest Jerome Hopkins. Pref. by John Myers Myers.
1971, Penguin Books
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume VII: The Devil's Dictionary
1966, Gordian Press
in English
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume VII: The Devil's Dictionary
1911, Neale Publishing Company
in English
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume VII: The Devil's Dictionary
1911, Neale Publishing Company
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Devil's Dictionary (the Cynic's Word Book) (vol. 7 Of Collected Works) (Notable American Authors Series - Part I)
January 1911, Reprint Services Corporation
Library Binding
in English
0781219663 9780781219662
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume VII: The Devil's Dictionary
1911, Neale Publishing Company
in English
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Diccionario del diablo, el
Publish date unknown, Random House Mond.
in Spanish
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Publish date unknown, Dodo Press
Texte imprime /
in English
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Edition Notes
Published in part in 1906 under title: The cynic's word book.
"A Barbara Holdridge book."
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