The Best Of Dorothy Parker
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Slipcase: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: No issues noted. Usual shelf-wear on slipcase. Book in very good condition within slipcase.
Few writers of the twentieth century wielded a pen as sharp or a wit as devastatingly precise as Dorothy Parker — and The Best of Dorothy Parker gathers the finest gems from her legendary career into a single, indispensable volume. This anthology presents her most celebrated poems, short stories, and essays, capturing the sardonic, bittersweet world of a woman who moved through Jazz Age New York with equal parts glamour and disillusionment. From the aching brevity of her verse to the razor-edged dialogue of her fiction, Parker chronicles the quiet comedies and silent tragedies of modern life with an economy of language that remains unmatched. Parker's work endures not merely as a time capsule of the Algonquin Round Table set, but as a testament to the timeless power of irony wielded with surgical precision. Her voice — caustic yet tender, despairing yet exhilarating — illuminates the contradictions of womanhood, love, and ambition in a world that rarely took her seriously enough. This Folio Society edition, housed in its distinctive illustrated slipcase, is a collector's treasure that invites the reader to discover why Dorothy Parker remains, decades after her death, one of the most quoted — and most quietly devastating — writers in the English language.
Author: Dorothy Parker
Format: Hardback
Published: 1997, The Folio Society
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Slipcase: Good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: No issues noted. Usual shelf-wear on slipcase. Book in very good condition within slipcase.
Few writers of the twentieth century wielded a pen as sharp or a wit as devastatingly precise as Dorothy Parker — and The Best of Dorothy Parker gathers the finest gems from her legendary career into a single, indispensable volume. This anthology presents her most celebrated poems, short stories, and essays, capturing the sardonic, bittersweet world of a woman who moved through Jazz Age New York with equal parts glamour and disillusionment. From the aching brevity of her verse to the razor-edged dialogue of her fiction, Parker chronicles the quiet comedies and silent tragedies of modern life with an economy of language that remains unmatched. Parker's work endures not merely as a time capsule of the Algonquin Round Table set, but as a testament to the timeless power of irony wielded with surgical precision. Her voice — caustic yet tender, despairing yet exhilarating — illuminates the contradictions of womanhood, love, and ambition in a world that rarely took her seriously enough. This Folio Society edition, housed in its distinctive illustrated slipcase, is a collector's treasure that invites the reader to discover why Dorothy Parker remains, decades after her death, one of the most quoted — and most quietly devastating — writers in the English language.