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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... thought can be most readily identified. Ambrose Bierce's “What I Saw of Shiloh” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” may be his greatest works, but The Devil's Dictionary is quintessential Bierce. In fact, his life and career can be ...
... thought, instead inspiring certain writers to undertake that task, we find that the “writer who evolves this [devil's] dictionary [is inspired] from an understanding illuminated from Below . . . by the Personage whose title it bears ...
... thought and act. In many of the complexities and entanglements of modern affairs it is no easy matter to find an answer off-hand to the question, “What is it right to do?” But put it in another way: “What would Christ have done?” and lo ...
... thought in mind of rewriting and enlarging the original plan.” Ernest J. Hopkins repeats this in his Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967). The unsigned column to which McWilliams and Hopkins refer, dated 1 January 1881 (two months before ...
... thought it a volume of Bierce's “collected epigrams.” The reviewer in the Athenæum likewise reviewed four volumes at once but devoted considerable space to The Devil's Dictionary. Like H. P. Lovecraft, the reviewer noted that “a ...
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