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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... less than admirable behavior. The lexicographer professes to have compiled a “compendium of everything that is known up to date of its completion,” just as any lexicographer might." But whereas we might expect a dictionary to be a ...
... less time to devote to “The Devil's Dictionary,” but the column continued, if sporadically, until Bierce left the paper in 1886. Between 1882 and 1884, Bierce published only twenty-one “Devil's Dictionary” columns, fewer than the twenty ...
... less parochial. Perhaps for that reason, along with the column's absence for sixteen long years, Bierce sought to reinaugurate his column properly by beginning with the letter A. In the new “Cynic's Dictionary,” Bierce eschewed humorous ...
... less unwitty than anything else I've written, and more lively than a whole book of mere epigrams can be—even a small book.” Later he commented, I'll bet a pretty penny that not a publisher on this side of the continent will look at the ...
... less unwitty” than some of his other work. With The Devil's Dictionary, work on the Collected Works became more complicated and difficult. For the most part, the book was founded on The Cynic's Word Book. Bierce took a copy of that book ...
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