{"product_id":"2026100007889-secondhand-the-best-of-dorothy-parker","title":"The Best Of Dorothy Parker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nParker'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130629890267,"sku":"2026100007889-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/fa5a7a0d-f1dd-47a2-8cc0-2dd3dab5d21c.png?v=1786588001","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007889-secondhand-the-best-of-dorothy-parker","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}