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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 Bierce'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 a comprehensive, authoritative edition of a satiric masterpiece. This virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth. This edition is based on David E. Shultz and S.T. Joshi's investigation into the book's writing and publishing history. All of Bierce's known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly 200 wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included.
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Review:
"A compilation of all of Bierce's satirical definitions published over a forty-year period, this latest version of the "Dictionary" ('A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic') merits a wide readership both within and without the Academy ('A modern school where football is taught')."--"American Literary Review"
About the Author:
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America's most renowned satirists. The author of short stories, essays, fables, poems, and sketches, he was a popular columnist and wrote for several San Francisco and London newspapers during his forty-year journalism career. David E. Schultz is a technical editor. He is coeditor, with S. T. Joshi, of both "A Sole Survivor," a collection of Bierce's autobiographical writings, and "Lord of a Visible World," an autobiography-in-letters of H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He is the editor of "The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce" and author of "H. P. Lovecraft: A Life."
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- PublisherHarris Infosource
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1600730973
- ISBN 13 9781600730979
- BindingHardcover
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