Sunset Gun

by Dorothy Parker

12 chapters48mEnglish1928

About this book

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

Chapters (12)

1Section 1: Godmother; Partial Comfort; The Red Dress; Victoria; The Counsellor

239

2Section 2: Parable for a Certain Virgin; Bric-à-brac; Interior; Reuben’s Children; For R.C.B.

254

3Section 3: There Was One; On Cheating the Fiddler; Incurable; Fable; The Second Oldest Story

266

4Section 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

207

5Section 5: Mortal Enemy; Penelope; Bohemia; The Searched Soul; The Trusting Heart

183

6Section 6: Thought for a Sunshiny Morning; The Gentlest Lady; The Maid-Servant at the Inn; Fulfilment; Daylight Saving

205

7Section 7: Surprise; Swan Song; On Being a Woman; Afternoon; A Dream Lies Dead

205

8Section 8: The Homebody; Second Love; Fair Weather; The Whistling Girl; Story

277

9Section 9: Frustration; Healed; Landscape; Post-Graduate

132

10Section 10: Verses in the Night: Honeymoon; Triolet; Mélange for the Unknown George; Liebestod; For a Favorite Grand-daughter

306

11Section 11: Dilemma; Theory; A Fairly Sad Tale; The Last Question; Superfluous Advice; Directions for Finding the Bard; But Not Forgotten

354

12Section 12: Two-Volume Novel; Pour Prendre Congé; For a Lady Who Must Write Verse; Rhyme Against Living; Wisdom; Coda

266

Sunset Gun

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Chapters (12)

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