The Best of Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker
The Best of Dorothy Parker

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Introduced by Mervyn Horder.

Bound in full blocked silver material.

8 plates, illustrated by Helen Smithson.

8" x 5½", 240 pages.

Challenged to produce a sentence with the word 'horticulture' in it, she replied instantly: 'You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.' No one was quicker off the mark with a wisecrack than Dorothy Parker, who kept the tables of New York and Hollywood on a roar in the 1920s and 30s. Her poems and stories are full of the mordant, stylish one-liners that made her famous: brilliant, quotable, they range from the diamond glitter of her epigrams to the subtle poignancy of stories like 'Horsie'.

‘Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses’
Dorothy Parker
 
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