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Books like The Devil’s Dictionary

Explore 24 books like The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce — a handpicked selection united by Ancient & Classical, Humor, Literary Collections, and Education.

Top related books to The Devil’s Dictionary

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Devil’s Dictionary.

The Satirical Letters Of St. Jerome

St. Jerome

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Humor • Literary Collections

The Mah?bh?rata An English Version Based on Selected Verses

Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

Letters from a Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ … Index

Emil Schürer

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

An Introduction to Aristotle’s Rhetoric With Analysis, Notes and Appendices (1867)

Edward Meredith Cope

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

Lady Barbarina

Henry James

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

A Platonic Discourse about Some Philosophical Problems of Art, X Between a Young Man, the Student, Y, and Paul Zucker, the Author, Z

Paul Zucker

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

The Sex Side of Life An Explanation for Young People

MARY WARE. DENNETT

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

Living Together Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics

Jennifer Whiting

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#10

Humanism and the Latin Classics

Aldo Manuzio

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#11

The Major Declamations

Quintilian

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#12

Achilles and Yossarian Clarity and Confusion in the Interpretation of the Iliad and Catch-22

Leon Golden

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#13

Phaedrus

Plato

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#14

The Teachings of a Stoic Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion

Epictetus

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#15

Medieval Cats Claws, Paws and Kitties of Yore

Author

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Humor • Literary Collections

#16

The Great Tradition Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being

Richard M. Gamble

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#17

Collected Papers on Suetonius

Tristan Power

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#18

Know Thyself A Leader’s Guide To The Study Of Socrates

Doreen Canaday Spitzer

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections • Education

#19

The Poems of Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Humor • Literary Collections

#20

Martial’s Epigrams A Selection

Garry Wills

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Humor • Literary Collections

#21

Mama, Get the Hammer! There’s a Fly on Papa’s Head!

Barbara Johnson

Themes: Humor • Literary Collections • Education

#22

The Woman’s Bible

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections

#23

The Golden Legend Selections

Jacobo di Voragine

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections

#24

The Tragic Abyss

Glenn Cannon Arbery

Themes: Ancient & Classical • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Ancient & Classical, Humor, Literary Collections — the same threads that run through The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. Among the authors featured: St. Jerome, Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Emil Schürer, and others.