The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010年9月15日 - 440页 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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... Sept. 1885). 3. AB began his diabolical career as a “printer's devil” for a local newspaper when he was fifteen. 4. He never tired of it. As late as 1891, when AB was writing for the Examiner, he published a regular feature in the Wasp ...
... Sept. 1883): 5. Io. “Religion,” CW II. 225–26 (this extract dates to 2 June 1891). II. In the verses published with this definition in D, Christ vehemently asserts that he is no Christian and is insulted to be mistaken for one. 12. “The ...
... Sept. 1903 (transcript, Bancroft Library). 33. AB to Herman Scheffauer, 27 Sept. 1903 (transcript, Bancroft Library). 34. George Sterling to AB, Io Oct. 1903 (ALS, NYPL). 35. AB to Robert Mackay, 25 Apr. 1904 (ALS, Harvard). 36. AB to ...
... Sept. 1911): 322. 52. AB to Walter Neale, Io Oct. 1911 (ALS, University of Virginia). 53. H. L. Mencken, “Ambrose Bierce,” in Prejudices: Sixth Series (New York: Knopf, 1927), 260. Mencken's article first appeared in the Chicago Tribune ...
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