The Devil's Dictionary - 9781987576252

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.

• • Author: Ambrose Bierce
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Apr 06, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 218 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 198757625X
• • ISBN-13: 9781987576252