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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... column of miscellaneous commentary, as his first contributions to the San Francisco weekly, the Wasp. In those days Bierce's work was published mostly unsigned or pseudonymously, but readers recognized the distinctive work of the former ...
... column in December 1868, and it served as his chief sounding board for the duration of his tenure. The column comprised ... columns running from 2,500 to nearly 3,000 words. On one occasion, he published a separate item called “Webster ...
... column to which McWilliams and Hopkins refer, dated 1 January 1881 (two months before Bierce's tenure with the Wasp began), is “Wasp's Improved Webster. In Ten-Cent Doses.” They claim that Bierce somewhat illogically launched his column ...
... column “The Devil's Dictionary” and restarting at a logical beginning, with words beginning with the letter A. The ... columns. In one period of fifty-seven weeks, Bierce published only three installments. The column regained some of ...
... columns. Definitions sometimes appeared out of sequence; that is, a definition that logically belonged in a certain column might instead appear in the subsequent installment, as if it were inserted as an afterthought. One particularly ...
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