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Catalog date:
2025-09-16
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Winnifred Assmann
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

Dorothy Parker’s second collection of poetry contains pieces first printed in the Bookman, the New Republic, the Nation, the New Yorker, Life, McCall’s magazine, the Yale Review, the New York World, and the New York Post. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Keyword(s): romance (1061), humor (641), satire (292), wit (24), heartbreak (3)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Section 1: Godmother; Partial Comfort; The Red Dress; Victoria; The Counsellor Winnifred Assmann
 00:03:59
Play 02 Section 2: Parable for a Certain Virgin; Bric-à-brac; Interior; Reuben’s Children; For R.C.B. Winnifred Assmann
 00:04:14
Play 03 Section 3: There Was One; On Cheating the Fiddler; Incurable; Fable; The Second Oldest Story Winnifred Assmann
 00:04:26
Play 04 Section 4: A Pig’s Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron; Oscar Wilde; Harriet Beecher Stowe; D. G. Rossetti; Thomas Carlyle; Charles Dickens; Alexandre Dumas and His Son; Alfred Lord Tennyson; George Gissing; Walter Savage Landor; George Sand Winnifred Assmann
 00:03:27
Play 05 Section 5: Mortal Enemy; Penelope; Bohemia; The Searched Soul; The Trusting Heart Winnifred Assmann
 00:03:03
Play 06 Section 6: Thought for a Sunshiny Morning; The Gentlest Lady; The Maid-Servant at the Inn; Fulfilment; Daylight Saving Winnifred Assmann
 00:03:25
Play 07 Section 7: Surprise; Swan Song; On Being a Woman; Afternoon; A Dream Lies Dead Winnifred Assmann
 00:03:25
Play 08 Section 8: The Homebody; Second Love; Fair Weather; The Whistling Girl; Story Winnifred Assmann
 00:04:37
Play 09 Section 9: Frustration; Healed; Landscape; Post-Graduate Winnifred Assmann
 00:02:12
Play 10 Section 10: Verses in the Night: Honeymoon; Triolet; Mélange for the Unknown George; Liebestod; For a Favorite Grand-daughter Winnifred Assmann
 00:05:06
Play 11 Section 11: Dilemma; Theory; A Fairly Sad Tale; The Last Question; Superfluous Advice; Directions for Finding the Bard; But Not Forgotten Winnifred Assmann
 00:05:54
Play 12 Section 12: Two-Volume Novel; Pour Prendre Congé; For a Lady Who Must Write Verse; Rhyme Against Living; Wisdom; Coda Winnifred Assmann
 00:04:26