Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using selected and arranged passages Barry Day tells the life of Dorothy Parker.
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Letters of Note
Author: Shaun Usher
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1838856161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.
Dorothy Parker
Author: Marion Meade
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1989-03-03
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1101462191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780141182582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780140150742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrated stories and poems from the original Portable plus later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews, the Constant Reader, and Parker's collected New Yorker book reviews.
A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York
Author: Kevin C Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Roaring Forties Press
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1938901096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taking the reader through the New York that inspired, and was in turn inspired by, the formidable Mrs. Parker, the new edition of this guide includes never-before-seen archival photographs to illustrate Dorothy Parker’s development as a writer, a wit, and a public persona. The book uncovers her favorite bars and salons as well as her homes and offices, most of which are still intact. With the charting of her colorful career, including the decade she spent as a member of the Round Table, as well as her intense private life, readers will find themselves drawn into the lavish New York City of the 1920s and 1930s.
Enough Rope
Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0593466357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Constant Reader
Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-11-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1961341263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendary wit, a much-quoted member of the Algonquin Round Table, and an arbiter of literary taste. In the year that she spent as a weekly reviewer, under the rubric “Constant Reader,” she created what is still the most entertaining book column ever written. Parker’s hot takes have lost none of their heat, whether she’s taking aim at the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson (“She can go on like that for hours. Can, hell—does”), praising Hemingway’s latest collection (“He discards detail with magnificent lavishness”), or dissenting from the Tao of Pooh (“And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up”). Introduced with characteristic wit and sympathy by Sloane Crosley, Constant Reader gathers the complete weekly New Yorker reviews that Parker published from October 1927 through November 1928, with gimlet-eyed appreciations of the high and low, from Isadora Duncan to Al Smith, Charles Lindbergh to Little Orphan Annie, Mussolini to Emily Post
Farewell, Dorothy Parker
Author: Ellen Meister
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0425264718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When it comes to movie reviews, critic Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. But that’s only because she’s learned to channel her literary hero Dorothy Parker, the most celebrated and scathing wit of the twentieth century. If only Violet could summon that kind of strength in her personal life. Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel in an attempt to find inspiration from the hallowed dining room where Dorothy Parker and so many other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs, but she gets more than she bargained for when Parker’s feisty spirit rematerializes. An irreverent ghost with problems of her own—including a refusal to cross over to the afterlife—Mrs. Parker helps Violet face her fears, becoming in turn mentor and tormentor…and ultimately, friend. READERS GUIDE INSIDE
Complete Stories
Author: Dorothy Parker
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780142437216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A complete collection of short stories by the noted humorist features Parker's best known tales, along with thirteen stories never previously collected.
