A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authorsâthe inimitable Dorothy Parker
Author, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to be an alcoholic and often depressed, Parkerâs work pushes all buttons at once: humor, anger, love, pity and everything in bewteenâŠshe pulled no punches, writing with pure, unadulterated passion; her work is timeless and as pertinent to todayâs society as it was to that of the time she wrote.
Among the gems included in this collection are her first published short story, Such a Pretty Little Picture and her O. Henry Award winner Big Blonde, several other short stories, and, unlike other audio collections, some of her work, including her 1918 New Yorker piece on Tolstoyâs play Redemption and a 1927 Vanity Fair review of Emily Postâs Ettiquette.
