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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... word—unless in sport—without having been previously vexed at something. I will make use of no tobacco in any of its ... words but to employ them with some exaggeration or hyperbole if necessary. Perhaps only by being utterly outrageous ...
... words known to be by Bierce are not merely coincidental. Bierce used satiric definitions only sporadically during his ... word “Pluck.” It is then supposed that “Wasp's Improved Webster” lasted only six installments through 5 February ...
... word “Rye,” and that after a month's hiatus, Bierce resumed publishing dictionary definitions beginning on 5 March, now calling the column “The Devil's Dictionary” and restarting at a logical beginning, with words beginning with the ...
... words “Elysium,”“Embalm.” “Envy,”“Epicure,” “Epigram,”“Epitaph,”“Esteem,”“Ethnology,”“Eucalyptus,” “Euphemism,” and ... word “Life,” as though loyal followers of his work were eagerly awaiting the next installment, despite a change of ...
... word that follows the very first word that appeared in the Wasp. Bierce wrote a batch of definitions to account for A words up to the word “Accuracy,” thereby replacing with rewritten or new definitions those contained in “The Demon's ...