The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 15. 9. 2010 - Počet stran: 440 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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... Satan, if not Satan himself.” For two thirds of his career, Bierce tirelessly affected the persona of a demonic journalist.” His first book, the pseudonymously published The Fiend's Delight (1873), named for one of Satan's minions ...
... Satan composed or inspired it, mockingly celebrates humanity's proclivity for willfully bending and distorting language to camouflage less than admirable behavior. The lexicographer professes to have compiled a “compendium of everything ...
... Satan's collaborator was himself an adherent of the teachings of Christ in a highly individualizedway. He once confessed: This is my ultimate and determining test of right—“What, under the circumstances, would Jesus have done?”—the ...
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