false 786533 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773m/786533.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773s/786533.jpg 49256 85 865289 book 1911 The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary total:1369|5:619|4:505|3:210|2:30|1:5| 1369 5810 2034 128 14403 4.18 3022 326 40573276 1713956 786533 0195126270 9780195126273 8 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773m/786533.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773s/786533.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786533.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.32 88 1911 4 37 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 20 22:52:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 05:17:42 -0800 2008 goodreads, n. Website designed to prevent people who enjoy books from finding time to read them.

review, v.i. Demonstrate, through a short essay, appreciation for one's own wit.


]]> 1041762 4806 786533 0195126270 9780195126273 8 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773m/786533.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773s/786533.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786533.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 1911 5 3 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 20:46:32 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 04:56:39 -0700 2007 Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In D...more...]]> 10674191 695116 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.28 821 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 3 false Wed Dec 19 03:54:16 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 30 10:48:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12267170 657098 786533 0195126270 9780195126273 8 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773m/786533.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773s/786533.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786533.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 1911 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Jan 11 12:36:02 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 12:37:36 -0800 2008 142636 1209 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Mar 02 12:23:29 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 02 12:30:43 -0800 2007
"Love: n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many o...more...]]> 1892961 117848 786533 0195126270 9780195126273 8 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773m/786533.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178336773s/786533.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786533.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 1911 4 1 false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jun 12 13:07:48 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 13:16:15 -0700 2007 His definition of Oblivion:The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage fo...more...]]> 44259913 974210 6136806 1 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232876897m/6136806.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232876897s/6136806.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6136806.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.00 3 Altho the origins of the Dictionary are normally placed in 1881 when Bierce himself said it began the idea started in 8/1869 when he, short of topics & having bought a copy of Webster's Unabridged dictionary, suggested writing a "Comic Dictionary". He quoted the entry from Webster's for Viceregent & italicised the section: "Kings are sometimes called God's viceregents. It is to be wished they would always deserve the appellation." He then suggested how Noah Webster might have used his talent in a comic form. The idea of a Comic Dictionary was born.
The idea manifested itself in 1875 when Bierce, who had resigned as the Town Crier & had spent 3 years in London, returned to San Francisco in the hope of regaining his post in the News Letter. He sent 2 submissions to the editor of the News Letter, both written under aliases, one of which was entitled The Demon's Dictionary & contained 48 words w/new definitions in his trademark style of acerbic wit. Altho forgotten by Bierce in his compiling of the Devil's Dictionary, these entries were included in the Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, published in 1967.
The Devil's Dictionary didn't reappear in Bierce's next column ("Prattle," in the magazine The Argonaut, of which he'd become an editor in 3/1877). Nevertheless, he used the idea of comic definitions in his columns dated 11/17/ 1877 & 9/14/1878.
It was in early 1881 that Bierce 1st used the title, The Devil's Dictionary, while editor-in-chief of another weekly San Francisco magazine, Wasp. The dictionary proved popular, & during his time in this post (1881-86) he included 88 installments, each of 15-20 new definitions.
In 1887 Bierce became an editor in The Examiner & featured "The Cynic's Dictionary," the last of his dictionary columns until they reappeared in 1904, when they continued erratically before finishing in 7/1906.
A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms such as Salder Bupp & Orm Pludge; the most frequently appearing contributor is "that learned & ingenious cleric, F. Gassalasca Jape, S.J., whose lines bear his initials".
What had started as a newspaper serialization was 1st reproduced in book form in 1906 under the dubious title Cynic's Word Book. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, it had definitions of 500 words in the 1st half of the alphabet (A-L). A further 500 words (M-Z) were published in 1911 in Vol. 7 of The Collected Works as The Devil's Dictionary. This was a name much preferred by Bierce. He claimed the 'more reverent' title had been forced upon him by the religious scruples of his previous employer.
In 1967, an expanded version of The Devil's Dictionary was published, following extensive research by Ernest J. Hopkins. This version included the definitions which had been missed by Bierce when his Collected Works were compiled, due to the fact that he was compiling it in Washington, DC but many of the entries were in San Francisco & unavailable following the earthquake of 1906. This updated version adds 851 definitions to the 1,000 which appeared in versions published in Bierce's lifetime; in particular, it includes the words preceding "Abasement" which were originally defined in the Demon's Dictionary.
Various editions are currently in print including ISBN 0-19-512627-0, by Oxford University Press, & 0-8203-2401-9. It's also available online thru Project Gutenberg as well as through Wiktionary, a freely editable dictionary. The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary is in print in the Penguin Classics series, as 0-14-118592-9. In 2000, S.T. Joshi & David E. Schultz published The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (0820321966), including previously uncollected, unpublished & alternative entries, restoring definitions dropped from previous editions & removing almost 200 wrongly attributed to Bierce.]]> 1911 4 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969 Sun Jan 25 01:47:05 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 02:08:41 -0800 2009 1
We met when he did sophomore World History. Hank Kupjack, my first true friend in high school, if not in life, was...more...]]> 41380182 655723 663536 0486275426 9780486275420 11 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430m/663536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430s/663536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/663536.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.27 169 1911 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Dec 31 02:50:39 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 05:14:27 -0800 2008
...Some purists might claim that the only measure of cleverness that counts is whether one avoids "disappea...more...]]> 1194657 84023 663536 0486275426 9780486275420 11 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430m/663536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430s/663536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/663536.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 1911 5 1 false Sun May 13 19:37:29 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 15:50:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 81638156 2941390 663536 0486275426 9780486275420 11 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430m/663536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430s/663536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/663536.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 1911 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Mon Dec 21 03:54:37 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 21 04:14:38 -0800 2009 too many to count Friendship,n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather...more...]]> 9785023 95618 663536 0486275426 9780486275420 11 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430m/663536.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176903430s/663536.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/663536.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 1911 5 1 false Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 30 18:19:12 -0800 2007 Fri Aug 08 12:20:21 -0700 2008
P.S. I was going to put up quotes from this book, but then I realized that pretty much everything in this book is quote-able. It's like a collection of quote-able-ness. Totally jokes.

P.P.S. The definition for "I" is fantastic.]]> 2663547 168541 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 1 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Tue Jul 03 06:27:03 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 06:29:16 -0700 2007 4997936 64683 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 4 1 false Thu Aug 23 08:29:38 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 08:32:06 -0700 2007 7113389 429071 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 18:08:16 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 18:19:58 -0700 2007 313107 19081 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 1 false Sun Mar 18 18:56:16 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 16:45:39 -0800 2009 43773104 1208104 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Jan 20 21:15:02 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 21:31:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12401368 777478 877961 1904891055 9781904891055 2 <![CDATA[The Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179119647m/877961.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179119647s/877961.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877961.The_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.00 8 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 4 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sun Jan 13 10:01:24 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 10:02:21 -0800 2008 77516634 2934669 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

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First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 0 false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 05:35:54 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 09:35:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 36005068 1545334 49256 0820324019 9780820324012 80 <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157m/49256.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170358157s/49256.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary 4.24 1369 This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information on every entry. It will be celebrated by wits and word lovers everywhere.

First time in paperback.

]]> 1911 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Oct 23 01:01:33 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 01:05:41 -0700 2008 Here are a few of my favorite entries.

Cannon
An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Christ...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=786533