or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
30 used & new from £6.30
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics)
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book

The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)

by Dorothy Parker (Author), Brendan Gill (Introduction) "Her husband had telephoned her by long distance to tell her about the leave ..." (more)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.06 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £3.93 (30%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Tuesday, November 24? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
22 new from £6.49 8 used from £6.30
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover 8 used & new from £3.75
Paperback (New edition) 27 used & new from £1.84
12 Days of Christmas Sale in Books
12 Days of Christmas Sale in Books
Get up to 65% off some of our top titles. Shop now

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this book with Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) + Complete Stories
Price For Both: £17.32

Show availability and delivery details

  • This item: The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Uncollected Dorothy Parker

The Uncollected Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £6.99
Complete Stories

Complete Stories

by Dorothy Parker
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £8.26
The Best of Dorothy Parker

The Best of Dorothy Parker

by Dorothy Parker
£8.49
The House of Mirth (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

The House of Mirth (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

by Edith Wharton
4.8 out of 5 stars (15)  £5.13
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic)

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises (Arrow Classic)

by Ernest Hemingway
3.6 out of 5 stars (21)  £4.72
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (31 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014118258X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141182582
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #1 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > P > Parker, Dorothy
    #10 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > G > Gill, A.A.
    #25 in  Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Essays, Journals & Letters > 20th Century

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent 1920S and 1930s in New York were a time of great experiment and daring for women. For the rich, life seemed a continual party, but the excesses took their emotional toll. With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle. Her own life exemplified this duality, for a while she was one of the most talked-about women of her day, she was also known as a "masochist whose passion for unhappiness knew no bounds". As philosopher Irwin Edman said, she was "a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack". Her dissection of the jazz age in poetry and prose is collected in this volume along with articles and reviews.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
First Sentence
Her husband had telephoned her by long distance to tell her about the leave. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics)
87% buy the item featured on this page:
The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) 4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
£9.06
Complete Stories
6% buy
Complete Stories 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
£8.26
The Best of Dorothy Parker
3% buy
The Best of Dorothy Parker
£8.49
The Uncollected Dorothy Parker
2% buy
The Uncollected Dorothy Parker 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
£6.99
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sharp wit and biting observations withstanding time., 15 Dec 1999
By cejay@quista.net (Teesside, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Collected Dorothy Parker (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
Dorothy Parker uses her own indomitable style to observe in a dry, precise manner the intricate, and often misunderstood, relationships between the sexes and the classes. This book is inspirational, tragic, comic and far too close to home even now, up to seventy years after some of the material was first written. Parker's own sad life is reflected in each page of ascerbic social comment and I cannot recommend it enough. For anyone who has been more keen on a lover than they were upon one, read 'The Telephone' with a familiar heart - from there on in I guarantee you will be hooked. The poems are quite short, the theatre and book reviews can be scathing and the language/ terminology is somewhat dated, but none of this detracts from Mrs Parkers vast talent for accurately dissecting the human condition in all of its guises. This collection of her work will leave the reader feeling like they have found a very prickly friend, who is well worth taking the time to become familiar with.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
21 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a great book from a great woman, 6 Sep 2001
what can i say? this comprises some of the best work written in this catergory, and all by one woman! Dorothy Parker has a great wit and conveys her point extremly well using humor and her amazing intellect. this is a book i read with some friends and we laugh and agree with her! well worth it!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject


















i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.