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El diccionario del diablo

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An edition of The Devil's Dictionary (1840)

El diccionario del diablo

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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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Edimat Libros
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Spanish
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184

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Cover of: The Devil’s Dictionary
The Devil’s Dictionary
2021, Standard Ebooks
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Cover of: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
2013, Readaclassic.com
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Cover of: El diccionario del diablo
El diccionario del diablo
2007, Edimat Libros
Hardcover in Spanish
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
2007-02-10, LibriVox
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Cover of: The Devils Dictionary
The Devils Dictionary
2005, Echo Library
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
2005, Axiom Publishing
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
1997-07-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
1993, Dover Publications, Inc.
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
1993, Dover Publications, Inc.
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
1967, Hill and Wang
in English
Cover of: The devil's dictionary
The devil's dictionary
1962, Dover Publications
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
1911, The World Publishing Co
in English
Cover of: The devil's dictionary
The devil's dictionary
1911, World Pub. Co.
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
xxxx, Dolphin Books
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The Devil's Dictionary
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Hardcover
Number of pages
184

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OL9792043M
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ISBN 10
8497647483
ISBN 13
9788497647489
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5978
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