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A brief overview of the four editions of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. How the content outlining A.A.’s program of recovery has been retained, while some of the stories have been changed over time to reflect the current membership.
Read online: "Alcoholic Anonymous", the basic text book of the 12-step recovery program of Alcoholics Anonymous, including recovery stories of AA members.
B-1 Alcoholics Anonymous- Big Book 4th Edition. Known as the "Big Book," the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people recover from alcoholism since the first edition appeared in 1939.
Big Book Online (PDF) of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is the Fourth Edition of the Big Book, the basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous. Since the first edition appeared, in 1939, it has helped millions of men and women recover from alcoholism.
Index to the text. Acceptance was an idea in a story in the 3rd edition and stories are not included here. See page 449 in the 3rd edition or page 417 in the 4th edition. Use this link to read the story on the AA.org Website. Sponsor and sponsorship also do not appear in the main text of the book.
This is the fourth edition of the book “Alcoholics Anonymous.” The first edition appeared in April 1939, and in the following sixteen years, more than 300,000 copies went into circulation.
WE, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics PRECISELY HOW WE HAVE RECOVERED is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authentica-tion will be necessary.
SEARCH THE BIG BOOK©. Search for single words such as " dubious " or " must ", or for whole phrases like " Rarely have we seen a person fail ". Case does not matter. For example, " DUBIOUS " or dUbIouS " works the same as " dubious ". By design, if you search for " alcohol ", the search will return " alcohol ", " alcoholic ", " alcoholics ...
WE, OF Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book. For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authenti-cation will be necessary.
THEY LOST NEARLY ALL. The fifteen stories in this group tell of alcoholism at its miserable worst. Many tried everything—hospitals, special treatments, sanitariums, asylums, and jails. Nothing worked. Lone -liness, great physical and mental agony—these were the common lot. Most had taken shattering losses on nearly every front of life.