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The firecracker verse of a true American original Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literary coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputation as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humor earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. This Penguin Classics edition of her poetry-the companion to Parker's "Complete Stories" and introduced by her noted biograp...

Dorothy Parker verkörpert alles, was man gemeinhin mit New York in Verbindung bringt: Rastlosigkeit und Moderne, Esprit und Erfolg, aber auch Härte, Grausamkeit und Einsamkeit. Dorothy Parker ist die New Yorker Schriftstellerin schlechthin.Dorothy Parkers Gedichte sind stets ein Zusammenspiel aus Witz und Melancholie, aus Trauer und Scherz, aus Pathos und Spott. Ebenso wie ihre Erzählungen zeichnet sich ihre Lyrik durch einen charakteristische...

In Men I'm not Married To Dorothy Parker's famous wit is on full display as she describes nine men that she did not marry. Some of the descriptions are long and involved others are but a single line such as "Lloyd wears washable neckties." Delightful and funny!

In Men I'm not Married To Dorothy Parker's famous wit is on full display as she describes nine men that she did not marry. Some of the descriptions are long and involved others are but a single line such as "Lloyd wears washable neckties." Delightful and funny!

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The best of modern American drama is represented in the seventeen essays of this collection. They explore the works of four of the most celebrated playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams, Arthur miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard.

Excerpt from Enough Rope: PoemsHear them clack of my haste to greet him! NO one other my mouth had kissed. I had dressed me in silk to meet him False young Death would not hold the tryst.Slow's the blood that was quick and stormy, Smooth and cold is the bridal bed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historica...

Excerpt from Enough Rope: PoemsHear them clack of my haste to greet him! NO one other my mouth had kissed. I had dressed me in silk to meet him False young Death would not hold the tryst.Slow's the blood that was quick and stormy, Smooth and cold is the bridal bed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historica...

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This is a collection of Dorothy Parker's poems, stories and sketches. Parker was a famed wit, writer and member of the Algonquin Round Table, the group of New York critics in the heyday of the 1920s.

Excerpt from High Society: Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of QualityFor upward Of a generation, now, operatic and musical mat ters have gone along much as usual at our opera house. It's always dangerous to be different, or original, or divert ing. Literally, the only novel thing that has happened at the Opera this season is th...

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Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age.

Excerpt from Men I'm Not Married To No matter where my route may lie, No matter whither I repair, In brief - no matter how or why Or when I go, the boys are there. On lane and byways, street and square, On alley, path and avenue, They seem to spring up everywhere The men I am not married to. I watch them as they pass me by, At each in wonderment I stare, And, but for heaven's grace, I cry, There goes the guy whose name I'd wear! They repres...

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Excerpt from High Society: Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of QualityFor upward Of a generation, now, operatic and musical mat ters have gone along much as usual at our opera house. It's always dangerous to be different, or original, or divert ing. Literally, the only novel thing that has happened at the Opera this season is th...

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Based on a wide range of previously untapped sources, this first full-length biography traces the course of McNickle's life from the reservation of his childhood through a career of major import to American Indian political and cultural affairs. In so doing it reveals a man who affirmed his own heritage while giving a collective Indian voice to many who had previously seen themselves only in a tribal context.