The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryIf 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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... unsigned or pseudonymously, but readers recognized the distinctive work of the former “Town Crier” of the Sam Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser and the “Prattler” of the Argonaut, so that a byline would have been little ...
... unsigned piece is indisputably his, for several of the jokes in it were represented later in The Devil's Dictionary. Another piece, “'News Letter Aphorisms—By Our Special Philosopher,” contained the first of several definitions formed ...
... unsigned and although Bierce included none of its definitions in The Devil's Dictionary, it can be ascribed to Bierce based on a fair amount of internal evidence.” The most obvious is the definition of “Abatis,” which is virtually ...
... unsigned editorials, but on 27 March “Prattle” reappeared, and since Bierce's addition to the Examiner was intended to attract readers, it was published with his byline, as was all his feature writing for Hearst. Bierce steadily filled ...
... unsigned, “A Cynic's Word Book: Some New Definitions.” TP's Weekly, no. 244 (12 July 1907: 51): “Many of my readers will find amusement and even instruction in 'The Cynic's Word Book.” 16. “A. Gwinnett,” Californian 7, no. 32 (Dec. 1867): ...
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