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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Library Reserve Desk | PS3531.A5855 O67 2006 | 37684001097463 | Getz Reserve | Not holdable | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 0143039539
- ISBN: 9780143039532
- Physical Description: xxviii, 626 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
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| General Note: | Originally published: 1944. With new introd. Faculty reserve. Material for LENG-223 (Large). |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages ... Read More |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Suggestions for Further Reading. ... Read More Part Two: Other Writings: Such a Pretty Little ... Read More Part Three: A Dorothy Parker Sampler: Any Porch, ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | The second revision in sixty years, this sublime ... Read More |
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| Subject: | American wit and humor. American literature > 20th century. English literature > 20th century. |
| Genre: | Short stories. Poetry. Essays. |
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Summary:
The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. There are some stories new to the Portable, "Such a Pretty Little Picture," along with a selection of articles written for such disparate publications as Vogue, McCall's, House and Garden, and New Masses. At the heart of her serious work lies her political writings? racial, labor, international? and so "Soldiers of the Republic" is joined by reprints of "Not Enough" and "Sophisticated Poetry? And the Hell With It," both of which first appeared in New Masses. "A Dorothy Parker Sampler" blends the sublime and the silly with the terrifying, a sort of tasting menu of verse, stories, essays, political journalism, a speech on writing, plus a catchy off-the-cuff rhyme she never thought to write down. "Self-Portrait" reprints an interview she did in 1956 with the Paris Review, part of a famed ongoing series of conversations ("Writers at Work") that the literary journal conducted with the best of twentieth-century writers. What makes the interviews so interesting is that they were permitted to edit their transcripts before publication, resulting in miniature autobiographies. "Letters: 1905-1962," which might be subtitled "Mrs. Parker Completely Uncensored," presents correspondence written over the period of a half century, beginning in 1905 when twelve-year-old Dottie wrote her father during a summer vacation on Long Island, and concluding with a 1962 missive from Hollywood describing her fondness for Marilyn Monroe.