The Devil's Dictionary@ambrosebierce

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY *** THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY by Ambrose Bierce AUTHOR'S PREFACE _The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and 🧵

The Devil's Dictionary@ambrosebierce

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 2/1745

The Devil's Dictionary@ambrosebierce

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 3/1745