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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... stories that sound like genuinely researched history that mocked persistent legends, as seen in the definitions for “Fairy,” “Ghoul,” “Gnome,” and “Reliquary.” For the most part, the definitions appeared in continuous alphabetical ...
... composed specifically for inclusion in D. 49. For example, the definitions“Story,”“Trial,”“Weakness,”“Whangdepootenawah,” “Zany,” and “Zanzibar.” so. [Unsigned, “Mr. Bierce's Works,” New York Times (19 Nov. xxviii : INTRODUCTION.
... story of the head of John the Baptist on a charger shows that pagan myths have somewhat sophisticated sacred history. Cerberus, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance—against whom or what does not clearly ...
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