The Devil's Dictionary: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Devil's Dictionary, credited to Ambrose Bierce, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Devil's Dictionary
• Author credits: Ambrose Bierce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 8:35:00

Catalogue topics

• satire
• bierce

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface and Letter A — 33:16
2. 02 - Letter B — 17:28
3. 03 - Letter C — 24:14
4. 04 - Letter D — 19:59
5. 05 - Letter E — 21:30
6. 06 - Letter F — 24:48
7. 07 - Letter G — 20:08
8. 08 - Letter H — 24:32
9. 09 - Letter I — 45:19
10. 10 - Letters J to L — 40:46
11. 11 - Letter M — 29:21
12. 12 - Letters N and O — 26:25
13. 13 - Letters P and Q — 38:27
14. 14 - Letter R — 39:59
15. 15 - Letter S — 56:17
16. 16 - Letter T — 18:21
17. 17 - Letters U to Z — 34:21

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