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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... consist of definitions (somewhat original) of such words that struck my fancy, regularly arranged as in a real dictionary. Some of the definitions stand alone, some are followed by a few lines of illustration or comment, some run to the ...
... consists largely of selections from his “Devil's Dictionary” columns from the Wasp, as they covered the letters A through L, but it also contains many of the new A definitions of 1904 and the L definitions of 1887 and 1888. Bierce ...
... consist almost entirely of clippings from newspapers, lightly revised. Still, this reached only partly through the letter R, to the word “Reconciliation.” The typesetting copy concludes with a seventy-two-page typescript of mostly new ...
... consist of many hundreds of discrete components. Bierce's intentions for such a book cannot be known, considering the differing constraints under which he edited the edition of 1911 and its predecessor, The Cynic's Word Book. Surely ...
... consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn. [2.] That rare quality of mind to which monuments are erected by posterity above the bones of ...
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