Author:
Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967.
Edition Statement:Rev. and enl. ed. with a new introd. by Brendan Gill.
Imprint:New York : Penguin Books, 1976.
Descriptionxxviii, 610 p. ; 18 cm.
Note:First published in 1944 under title: Dorothy Parker.
Note:Includes index.
Note:PART ONE: THE ORIGINAL PORTABLE AS ARRANGED BY DOROTHY PARKER IN 1944: The lovely leave. - Arrangement in black and white. - The sexes. - The standard of living. - Mr. Durant. - The waltz. - The wonderful old gentleman. - Song of the shirt, 1941. - Enough rope (poems). - A telephone call. - Here we are. - Dusk before fireworks. - You were perfectly fine. - Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street. - Soldiers of the Republic. - Tood bad. - The last tea. - Big blonde. - Sunset gun (poems). - Just a little one. - Lady with a lamp. - The little hours. - Horsie. - Glory in the daytime. - New York to Detroit. - Death and taxes (poems). - The custard heart. - From the diary of a New York lady. - Cousin Larry. - Little Curtis. - Sentiment. - Clothe the naked. - War song (poem). - PART TWO: LATER STORIES. REVIEWS AND ARTICLES. LATER STORIES: I live on your visits. - Lolita. - The bolt behind the blue. - PLAY REVIEWS: From Vanity Fair, 1918-1920. - Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler. - Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband. - Leo Tolstoi: Redemption. - Edward Knoblock: Tiger! Tiger! - J.M. Barrie: Dear Brutus. - Sem Benelli: The jest. - Actors' strike benefits. - Pierre Louys: Aphrodite. - John Drinkwater: Abraham Lincoln. - From The New Yorker, 1931: (as substitute for Robert Benchley): Kindly accept substitutes (The Barrets of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier). - Just around Pooh Corner (Give me yesterday, by A.A. Milne). - No more fun (The admirable Crichton, by J.M. Barrie). - A few minutes of your time (The silent witness, by Jack De Leon and Jack Celestin). - Valedictory (Getting married, by George Bernard Shaw; Lady beyond the moon, by William Doyle; Right of happiness, by Roy Daavidson). - BOOK REVIEWS: Constant reader: from The New york, 1927-1933. - The private papers of the dead (Journal of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleeton Murry). - An American DuBarry (The President's daughter, by Nan Britton) - Re-enter Margot Asquith--a masterpiece frm the French (Lay Sermons, by Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith; The counterfeiters, by André Gide). - A book of great short stories (Men without women, by Ernest Hemingway). - The professor goes in for sweetness and light (Happiness, by William Lyon Phelps). - Madame Glyn lecctures on 'it,' with illustratoins (It, by Elinor Glyn). - The socialist looks at literature (Money writes!, by Upton Sinclair). - The short story, through a couple of the ages (The best short stories of 1927, edited by Edward O'Brien). - Mrs. Post enlarges on etiquette (Etiquette, by Emily Post). - Porr, immortal Isadora (My Life, by Isadora Duncan). - Re-enter Miss Hurst, followed by Mr. Tarkington (A president is born, by Fannie Hurst; Claire Ambler, by Booth Tarkington). - A good novel, and a great story (The last post, by Ford Madox Ford). - Literary Rotarians. - Excuse it, please. - Our lady of the loudspeaker (In the service of the king, by Aimee Semple McPherson). - The compleat bungler (The art of successful bidding, by George Reith; Home to Harlem, by Claude McKay). - Ethereal mildness (Appendicities, by Thew Wright, M.D.; Art of the night, by George Jean Nathan; Etched in moonlight,by James Stephens). - Mr. Lewis lays it on with a trowel (The man who knew Coolidge, by Sinclair Lewis). - These much too charming people (Debonaire, by G.B. Stern). - Duces wild (The Cardinal's mistress, by Benito Mussolini; All kneeling, by Anne Parrish). - Far frm well (The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne). - Wallflower's lament (Favorite jokes of famous people, compiled by Frank Nicholson; The technique of the love affair, by Mrs. Doris Moore). - And again, Mr. Sinclair Lewis (Dodsworth, by Sinclair Lewis). - Hero worship (Round up, by Ring Lardner). - Home is the sailor (Forty thousand sublime and beautiful thoughts, compiled by Charles Noel Douglas). - Kiss and Tellegen (Women have been kind, by Lou Tellegen). - Two lives and some letters (Savage Messiah, by H.S. Ede). - Oh, look--a good book! (The glass key, by dashiell Hammett). - Words, words, words (Dawn, by Theodore Dreiser). - The grandmother of the aunt of the gardener (The ideal system for acquiring a practical knowledge of French, by Mlle. Valentine Debacq Gaudel; The American in Europe: how to get all you want while travelling in Spain, Hugo's simplified system). - Not even funny (An American girl, by Tiffany Thayer; Background [Vol. I of Intimate Memories], by Mabel Dodge Luhan. - From Esquire, 1957-1962: Best fiction of 1957. - Edmund Wilson: The American earthquake; Jack Kerouac: The subterraneans; Edna Ferber: Ice Palace. - George P. Elliott: Parktilden Village; John Barth: The end of the road; Vance Bourjaily: The violated; Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita. - Ellery Queen: The New York murders. - Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's; John Updike: The poorhouse fair. - James Thurber: The years with Ross. - Katherine Anne Porter: Ship of fools. - Shirley Jackson: We have always lived in the castle. - UNCOLLECTED ARTICLES: Good souls. - The artist's reward. - The siege of Madrid. - The middle or blue period. - Variations on a theme, by Somerset Maugham.
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