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Dorothy Parker (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Dorothy Parker’s principal writings, identified by Alexander Woolcott as “a potent distillation of nectar and wormwood,” are short stories and verse—not serious “poetry,” she claimed. Her poetic volumes include Enough Rope (1926), Sunset Gun (1928), and Death and Taxes (1931)—mostly lamentations for loves lost, never found, or gone awry. She wrote witty drama reviews for Vanity Fair (1918-1920), Ainslee’s (1920-1933), and The New Yorker (1931); and terse, tart book reviews for The New Yorker...

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• Dorothy Parker (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Dorothy Parker (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Dorothy Parker (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Dorothy Parker (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Dorothy Parker (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Dorothy Parker (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Dorothy Parker (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Dorothy Parker (Women’s Issues (Ready Reference series))

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• Big Blonde (Short Stories)
• Big Blonde (Identities and Issues)
• Portable Dorothy Parker, The (Women’s Literature)
• English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)