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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Poetry |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dorothy Parker |
| ISBN: | 0679601325 : 9780679601326 |
| OCLC Number: | 31129684 |
| Description: | viii, 457 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Enough rope -- Threnody -- Small hours -- False friends -- Trifler -- A very short song -- A well-worn story -- Convalescent -- Dark girl's rhyme -- Epitaph -- Light of love -- Wail -- Satin dress -- Somebody's song -- Anecdote -- Braggart -- Epitaph for a darling lady -- To a much too unfortunate lady -- Paths -- Hearthside -- New love -- Rainy night -- For a sad lady -- Recurrence -- Story of Mrs. W-- -- Dramatists -- August -- White lady -- I know I have neen happiest -- Testament -- I shall come back -- Condolence -- Immortals -- A portrait -- Portrait of the artist -- Chant for dark hours -- Unfortunate coincidence -- Inventory -- Now at Liberty -- Comment -- Plea -- Pattern -- De profundis -- They part -- Ballade of a Great Weariness -- Resume -- Renunciation -- Veteran -- Prophetic soul -- Verse for a certain dog -- Godspeed -- Song of Perfect Propriety -- Social note -- One perfect rose -- Ballade at Thirty-Five -- Thin edge -- Love song -- Indian Summer -- Philosophy -- For an unknown lady -- Leal -- Words of comfort to be scratched on a mirror -- Men -- News item -- Song of one of the girls -- Lullaby -- Faute de Mieux -- Roundel -- A certain lady -- Observation -- Symptom recital -- Rondeau Redouble -- Fighting words -- Choice -- General review of the Sex Situation -- Inscription for the ceiling of a bedroom -- Pictures in the smoke -- Nocturne -- Interview -- Experience -- Neither bloody nor bowed -- Burned child -- Sunset Gun -- Godmother -- Partial comfort -- Red dress -- Victoria -- Counselor -- Parable for a certain virgin -- Bric-a-Brac -- Interior -- Reuben's Children -- On cheating the fiddler -- There was one -- Incurable -- Fable -- Second oldest story -- A Pig's-eye view of Literature -- Lives and times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron -- Oscar Wilde -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- D.G. Rossetti -- Thomas Carlyle -- Charles Dickens -- Alexandre Dumas and his son -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- George Gissing -- Walter Savage Landor -- George Sand -- Mortal enemy -- Penelope -- Bohemia -- Searched soul -- Trusting heart -- Thought for a sunshiny morning -- Gentlest lady -- Maid-Servant at the Inn -- Fulfillment -- Daylight saving -- Surprise -- On being a woman -- Afternoon -- A dream lies dead -- Homebody -- Second love -- Fair weather -- Whistling girl -- Story -- Frustration -- Healed -- Landscape -- Post-Graduate -- For a favorite Granddaughter -- Liebestod -- Dilemma -- Theory -- A fairly sad tale -- The last question -- Superfluous advice -- But not forgotten -- Two-volume novel -- Pour Prendre Conge -- For a lady who must write verse -- Rhyme against living -- Wisdom -- Coda -- Death and taxes and other poems -- Prayer for a prayer -- After a Spanish Proverb -- Flaw in Pagaism -- Danger of writing defiant verse -- Distance -- Evening Primrose -- Sanctuary -- Cherry White -- Salome's dancing-lesson -- My own -- Solace -- Little words -- Ornithology for beginners -- Garden-spot -- Tombstones -- I. Minor poet -- II. Pretty lady -- III. Very rich man -- IV. Fisherwoman -- V. Crusader -- VI. Actress -- Little old lady in lavender silk -- Vers Demode -- Sonnet for the end of a sequence -- Apple tree -- Iseult of Brittancy -- "Star light, Star bright" -- Sea -- Guinevere at her fireside -- Transition -- Lines on reading too many poets -- From a letter from Lesbia -- Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals -- Purposely ungrammatical love song -- Prayer for a new mother -- Midnight -- Ninon de Lenclos, on her last birthday -- Ultimatum -- Of a woman, dead young -- Willow -- Sonnet on an Alpine night -- Ballade of Talked-off Ear -- Requiescat -- Sweet violets -- Prologue to a saga -- Summary -- Sight -- Lady's reward -- Prisoner -- Temps Perdu -- Autumn Valentine. |
Abstract:
Poetry and short stories by American author Dorothy Parker, who got her start as a caption writer for Vogue and was instrumental in forming the character of the New Yorker magazine at its founding in 1925.
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