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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... appeared in the Wasp. One of his very earliest published pieces, the essay “Concerning Tickets,” contains a satiric definition of the term “San Francisco lady” (hardly the sort of expression that would be found in a real dictionary) ...
... appeared in September 1875. Nothing by him is known to have been published in the United States following his return until the appearance of two items in the News Letter for II December 1875: a letter attributed to one “Theophilus ...
... appearance of the P through R items in early 1881 was merely part of the ongoing sequence. In a letter to S. O. Howes ... appeared only six times, and before year's end Bierce had resigned from the Wasp, the final definition published ...
... appeared in continuous alphabetical sequence, despite lapses in time between columns. Definitions sometimes appeared out of sequence; that is, a definition that logically belonged in a certain column might instead appear in the ...
... appeared in the “The Demon's Dictionary,” redefined some words that had been treated nearly thirty years previously, and wrote entirely new definitions. But after two consecutive columns of A definitions, Bierce halted briefly, then ...
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