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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... Letter and California Advertiser and the “Prattler” of the Argonaut, so that a byline would have been little more than a formality. The Devil's Dictionary may be said ostensibly to be Bierce's work, because one installment declared it ...
... Letters document the devil Screwtape's sage advice to his nephew Wormwood, a neophyte, on how to succeed at deviltry, his very words can also urge the receptive human reader to the exact opposite (and the author's desired) behavior ...
... Letter and California Advertiser. It was in the News Letter that Bierce explored and then began to hone virtually all his chief media for self-expression: fictional sketches, aphorisms, poems, fables, tall tales, fictitious letters ...
... Letter for II December 1875: a letter attributed to one “Theophilus Smallbeer” and a piece entitled “The Demon's Dictionary.” The latter item consisted of forty-eight brief definitions, satiric in nature, beginning with the letter A ...
... letter A. The simple fact is that “Wasp's Improved Webster” had been running in the Wasp since 7 August 188o (issue no. 210). The appearance of the P through R items in early 1881 was merely part of the ongoing sequence. In a letter to ...
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