The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010 M09 15 - 440 páginas 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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... Epigram,”“Epitaph,”“Esteem,”“Ethnology,”“Eucalyptus,” “Euphemism,” and “Excommunication.” One might assume that the reason for the long lapses in appearances of “The Devil's Dictionary” between 1883 and 1884 was that Bierce had tired of ...
... of discussion the previous year among Bierce and his protégés about possible publication of his definitions as a book. Bierce wrote to Herman Scheffauer, “No, I have not enough 'epigrams and aphorisms' for a INTRODUCTION : xix.
... epigrams and aphorisms' for a book—at least not without going through a mess of other stuff—principally my “Devil's Dictionary', which I want to keep intact in the hope that some publisher of the future may happen to take a fancy to it ...
... 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 sameness in the intention tends to tire ...
... Epigrams” take up only a small part of volume 8, which contains the long essay “On with the Dance!” which the reviewer actually addresses, and many short pieces of fiction. 51. [Unsigned review of CW], Athencum (16 Sept. 1911): 322. 52 ...
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