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Product Description: The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, it features Bierce's witty and often ironic spin on many common English words...read more
Hardcover:
9781434473714, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Facsimile edition (Wildside Pr, June 30, 2008), cover price $29.95 | also contains The Devil's Dictionary | About this edition: "The Devil's Dictionary," by Ambrose Bierce, is a satirical book first published in 1911.
9781847027917, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Large print edition (Echo Library, January 31, 2007), cover price $38.90 | About this edition: This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.
9781406822755, titled "The Devils Dictionary" | Echo Library, January 31, 2007, cover price $33.90 | About this edition: "The Devil's Dictionary" was begun in a weekly paper in 1881.
9781598186550, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Alan Rodgers Books, August 30, 2006, cover price $26.95
9781582343808, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | 1 edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, December 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A 'dictionary' of barbed definitions by one of America's most caustic humorists includes cynical epigrams, maxims, essays, and verses that illustrate the irreverent humor of the nineteenth-century satirist as he lampoons cherished American traditions.
8 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
Paperback:
9781523485024, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Createspace Independent Pub, January 19, 2016, cover price $9.99 | also contains The Devil's Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
9781522793427, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Createspace Independent Pub, December 20, 2015, cover price $9.99 | also contains The Devil's Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary | About this edition: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
9781519600165, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $11.99 | also contains The Devil's Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
9781519266101, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, November 13, 2015), cover price $8.99 | also contains The Devil's Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
9781517536114, titled "The Devil's Dictionary" | Createspace Independent Pub, September 27, 2015, cover price $11.95 | also contains The Devil's Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
47 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
Product Description: The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, it features Bierce's witty and often ironic spin on many common English words...read more
Hardcover:
9781595475381 | Nuvision Pubns, February 28, 2009, cover price $32.99 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary | About this edition: "The Devil's Dictionary" was begun in a weekly paper in 1881.
9781434473714 | Facsimile edition (Wildside Pr, June 30, 2008), cover price $29.95 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary | About this edition: "The Devil's Dictionary," by Ambrose Bierce, is a satirical book first published in 1911.
9780747569671 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, November 3, 2003), cover price $17.80 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary | About this edition: A dictionary.
Paperback:
9781523485024 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 19, 2016, cover price $9.99 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
9781522793427 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 20, 2015, cover price $9.99 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary | About this edition: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
9781519600165 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2015, cover price $11.99 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
9781519266101 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, November 13, 2015), cover price $8.99 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
9781517536114 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 27, 2015, cover price $11.95 | also contains The Devil''s Dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary
33 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
Product Description: "The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary" is a virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, offering some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth...read more
Hardcover:
9780820321967 | Subsequent edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, July 1, 2000), cover price $34.95
Paperback:
9781491292860 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 6, 2013, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: "The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary" is a virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, offering some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life.
9781449972561 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 14, 2009, cover price $9.99 | also contains The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
9780820324012 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $24.95
9789990091724 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $0.02 | also contains The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Hardcover:
9781598531022, titled "The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs" | Library of America, September 1, 2011, cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9780452268319 | Plume, January 1, 1993, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Lists and describes legitimate but seemingly taboo words from such fields as horticulture, carpentry, medicine, fashion, and others
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9780671474188 | Pocket Books, September 1, 1983, cover price $5.95
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