The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 15.09.2010 - 440 Seiten If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. |
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... American language, and liberally enriched with unintelligibility. . . . In the pursuit of my design I think I have killed a good many people in one way and another; but the reader will please to observe that they are not people worth ...
... American species), fraudulence, intolerance, euphemism, phony gentility, hairsplitting about trivial religious matters, outmoded and useless habits and rites, death and funerary practices, the desire for immortality, deception (often of ...
... exercise the powers of another. Kings are sometimes called God's viceregents. It is to be wished they would always deserve the appellation.” Could any one but an American humorist ever have conceived the INTRODUCTION : XV.
Ambrose Bierce David E. Schultz, S. T. Joshi. any one but an American humorist ever have conceived the idea of a Comic Dictionary?” It is mournful to think what a fame Noah Webster might have acquired had his genius not been diverted ...
... American, a paper Hearst had acquired in 1895, when it was the New York Journal. His audience now was much larger than San Francisco alone, and so he needed to make his work less parochial. Perhaps for that reason, along with the ...
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