An edition of The Devil's Dictionary (1840)

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An edition of The Devil's Dictionary (1840)

The devil's dictionary

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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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Publisher
Dover Publications
Language
English
Pages
145

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The Devil's Dictionary
2015, Roads
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Cover of: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
2013, Readaclassic.com
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The Devil's Dictionary
2007-02-10, LibriVox
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Cover of: Le dictionnaire du diable
Le dictionnaire du diable
2006, Rivages
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
2005, Axiom Publishing
in English
Cover of: The Devils Dictionary
The Devils Dictionary
2005, Echo Library
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
2005, The Folio Society
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
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, World Pub. Co.
in English
Cover of: The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary
xxxx, Dolphin Books
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Published in part in 1906 under title: The cynic's word book.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
817.4
Library of Congress
PS1097 .D4 1958a

The Physical Object

Pagination
145 p.
Number of pages
145

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL47318295M
Internet Archive
devilsdictionary0000bier_n3a9
LCCN
a62008606

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