Author: Dorothy ParkerPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy ParkerPublisher: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141182582
Category : Classical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
"With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle." -- Provided by publisher.
Dorothy Parker
Author: Marion MeadePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101462191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.
Enough Rope
Author: Dorothy ParkerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593466357
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist’s debut collection—a runaway bestseller in 1926—ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about relations between men and women. Known as the wittiest woman in America and a founder of the fabled Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was also one of the Jazz Age’s most beloved poets. Her verbal dexterity and cynical humor were on full display in the many poems she published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Life and collected in her first book in 1926. The poems in Enough Rope range from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about the relations between men and women. Unfortunate Coincidence By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Big Blonde
Author: Dorothy ParkerPublisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 177464360X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Short story, winner of the 1929 O. Henry Award. The big blonde in question is Hazel Morse, who, when we meet her, is "a model in a wholesale dress establishment", whose thoughts are largely devoted to men. Then she meets Herbie Morse, an attractive man and a heavy drinker. Where will events now take her?
A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York
Author: Kevin C. FitzpatrickPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458785440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs. Parker, this guide uses rarely seen archival photographs from her life to illustrate Dorothy Parker's development as a writer, a formidable wit, and a public persona. Her favorite bars and salons as well as her homes and offices, most of which ...
The Ladies of the Corridor
Author: Dorothy ParkerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143105310
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York One of literature's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker's life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d'Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman's life in a drama teeming with Parker's signature wit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Sexes
Author: Dorothy ParkerPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141196190
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Dorothy Parker captured early twentieth century American society like no one else could. She was a masterful observer of character, a witty, sharply exact composer of dialogue and a poignant reader of the subtleties of relationship. In these five stories, of relationships strained by ill-will, social distance or circumstance, all her strengths are clear.
Author: Ellen MeisterThe President's Daughter
Author: Nan BrittonPublisher: New York, Elizabeth Ann guild, Incorporated
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"If love is the only right warrant for bringing children into the world then many children born in wedlock are illegitimate and many born out of wedlock are legitimate." So contends Nan Britton in this account of Elizabeth Ann, her daughter by Warren G. Harding.
