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The Best of Dorothy Parker
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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