Selected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

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SELECTED SHORT STORIES of Dorthy Parker
When Dorothy Parker's collected stories were published a short time ago, W. Somerset Maugham wrote: "In her stories Dorothy Parker has a sense of form which, in these days, to my old-fashioned mind, is all too rare. . . . She knows exactly where to begin and where to end, and when you've 4one reading you have no questions to ask. She has a wonderfully delicate ear for human speech, and with a few words of dialogue—chosen, you might think, hap-hazardly—will give you a character complete in all its improbable plausibility.
Her style is easy without being slip-shod and cultivated without affectation. It is the perfect instrument for the display of her many-sided humor, her irony, her sarcasm, her tenderness, her pathos."
The present selection, taken from the best of her varied work, includes such favorites as "The Waltz," "Here We Are," and the poignant "Big Blonde," perhaps the most famous of all her incisive stories. All in all, these... Tovább

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SELECTED SHORT STORIES of Dorthy Parker
When Dorothy Parker's collected stories were published a short time ago, W. Somerset Maugham wrote: "In her stories Dorothy Parker has a sense of form which, in these days, to my old-fashioned mind, is all too rare. . . . She knows exactly where to begin and where to end, and when you've 4one reading you have no questions to ask. She has a wonderfully delicate ear for human speech, and with a few words of dialogue—chosen, you might think, hap-hazardly—will give you a character complete in all its improbable plausibility.
Her style is easy without being slip-shod and cultivated without affectation. It is the perfect instrument for the display of her many-sided humor, her irony, her sarcasm, her tenderness, her pathos."
The present selection, taken from the best of her varied work, includes such favorites as "The Waltz," "Here We Are," and the poignant "Big Blonde," perhaps the most famous of all her incisive stories. All in all, these pages present an animated period of our national history so pointedly that they reach beyond their times.
This special édition of Selected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker has been mcule available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the oiiginal publisher, The Viking Press, Inc., New York.
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