Dorothy Parker (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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In addition to Dorothy Parker’s verse—not serious “poetry,” she claimed—her principal writings, identified by Alexander Woollcott as “a potent distillation of nectar and wormwood,” are several collections of well-crafted short stories: Laments for the Living (1930), After Such Pleasures (1933), and Here Lies: The Collected Stories (1939). These stories focus on the superficial, pointless, barren lives of middle- and upper-class Manhattanite women of the flapper and early Depression times, unhappily dependent on men...
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