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- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 198757625X
- ISBN-13: 9781987576252
- Format: 17.8 x 25.4 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 198757625X
- ISBN-13: 9781987576252
- Format: 17.8 x 25.4 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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