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The Devil’s Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil’s Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-like definitions. (Summary by Peter)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Ambrose Bierce
• Wikipedia - The Devil’s Dictionary
• LibriVox’s The Devil’s Dictionary Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (247 MB)
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Total running time: 8:35:00

mp3 and ogg files

• 01 - Preface and Letter A - 00:33:15
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  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• 02 - Letter B - 00:17:27
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  Read by: Chip
• 03 - Letter C - 00:24:13
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  Read by: John Hicken
• 04 - Letter D - 00:19:58
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  Read by: Kathy
• 05 - Letter E - 00:21:29
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  Read by: Geetu Melwani
• 06 - Letter F - 00:24:48
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  Read by: Michael Kirkpatrick
• 07 - Letter G - 00:20:08
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  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• 08 - Letter H - 00:24:31
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  Read by: John Hicken
• 09 - Letter I - 00:45:19
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  Read by: Denny Sayers
• 10 - Letters J to L - 00:40:46
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  Read by: Fox in the Stars
• 11 - Letter M - 00:29:21
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  Read by: Kevin Devine
• 12 - Letters N and O - 00:26:24
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  Read by: Gesine
• 13 - Letters P and Q - 00:38:26
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  Read by: David Barnes
• 14 - Letter R - 00:39:58
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  Read by: Aldark
• 15 - Letter S - 00:56:16
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  Read by: Denny Sayers
• 16 - Letter T - 00:18:20
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  Read by: dreamword
• 17 - Letters U to Z - 00:34:21
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  Read by: Peter Yearsley

Cataloged on February 10, 2007