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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... contains a preface that four decades later could have applied to The Devil's Dictionary: The atrocities constituting this “cold collation” of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals. They are cast in the American ...
... contains definitions of many terms so commonplace as to need no defining—we all know what the words mean, yet when they are held as an enchanted mirror before the human heart, as in the fable Bierce tells at “Looking-glass,” we are ...
... contains a satiric definition of the term “San Francisco lady” (hardly the sort of expression that would be found in a real dictionary), attributed to “Some astute philosopher with a penchant for definition.” This fledgling bit of ...
... contain pedantic, even schoolmarmish instruction against the sins of grammatical abuse. Most of the definitions are general enough to be timeless, but many are aimed at the local events and personages of Bierce's day. He relentlessly ...
... contain numerous literary, biblical, and scientificallusions. Many of the illustrative quotations and poems are clever parodies of well-known writers and their work: Pope, Byron, Tennyson, Gray, Longfellow, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Burns ...