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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... never failed he applied to life and conduct the entire law of righteousness. He was a moral lightning calculator:” to his luminous intelligence the statement of the problem conveyed the solution— he could not hesitate, he seldom erred ...
... never, no never, so help me heaven! will I take his children along. I won't write any wicked slanders against anybody, unless by refraining I should sacrifice a good joke. I won't whip any cripples, unless they come fooling about me ...
... never entered our head that we should have to take an eminently respectable lexicographer to task for the same amiable weakness. But there is no betting on the undeviating hard sense of anybody, and the lexicographic mind is a merely ...
... San Francisco did not always appear on the same day as or even lag at the same rate behind the appearances in New York. Some columns never appeared in the San Francisco paper. But after January 1905 the xx - INTROD UCTION.
... never corrected in subsequent editions of the book. A particularly vexing problem for Bierce was getting the word “Hades” to be set correctly in Greek. Despite corrected second proofs, the printed version was still incorrect. The worst ...
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