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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... published not as a complete (albeit mock) reference book from which bits were occasionally extracted but as a work in progress in irregular installments published in various magazines and newspapers over a period of thirty years ...
... published pieces, the essay “Concerning Tickets,” contains a satiric definition of the term “San Francisco lady ... published around the country. Bierce included only a few definitions in “The Town Crier,” tidbits lodged deeply within ...
... published in the United States following his return until the appearance of two items in the News Letter for II ... publish the first of his work, part of “The Devil's Dictionary.'... With the first issue of the Wasp, he began the ...
... published only twenty-one “Devil's Dictionary” columns, fewer than the twenty-five published in all of 1881. There were breaks ranging from fifteen weeks to as long as thirty-two weeks between columns. In one period of fifty-seven weeks ...
... published on 17 and 24 May 1884 should have appeared among those in the four columns prior to 6 October 1883, that is, 23 December 1882 and 17 February, Io March, and 28 April 1883. The situation is further complicated by the fact that ...
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