Dorothy Parker — The Classic Collection of Dorothy Parker: Illustrated Edition (150 Books)

Big Blonde, A Telephone Call, Résumé, News Item, and Other Works

Dorothy Parker

• Publisher: Fanela Publishing
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9786178886820
• Subtopic: Classics

This illustrated classic collection brings together the essential early stories and poems of Dorothy Parker, one of the sharpest and most distinctive American literary voices of the twentieth century. Gathering celebrated works such as "Big Blonde," "A Telephone Call," "Résumé," and "News Item," alongside many other stories and verses, this edition presents Parker's remarkable range: elegant social satire, intimate psychological portraiture, dark comedy, romantic disillusionment, and perfectly cut poetic wit. Her writing captures the emotional atmosphere of the Jazz Age with rare precision, exposing the fragile performances behind manners, conversation, love affairs, marriages, parties, and polite society. Parker's stories are masterpieces of compression and observation. In "Big Blonde," she creates one of her most powerful portraits of loneliness and emotional exhaustion, while "A Telephone Call" turns a private moment of romantic anxiety into a brilliant dramatic monologue. Other stories reveal the cruelty of respectability, the absurd rituals of social life, and the quiet despair hidden beneath ordinary speech. Parker's characters are often funny because they are wounded, and wounded because they understand too much. Her prose remains modern in its rhythm, irony, and psychological clarity, moving effortlessly between humor and heartbreak. The poetry included in this volume shows Parker's genius in its most concentrated form. From the unforgettable brevity of "Résumé" to the satirical brilliance of "News Item," her verse is graceful, bitter, musical, and exact. She writes of love, disappointment, vanity, mortality, and self-knowledge with a voice that is at once theatrical and painfully honest. Together, the stories and poems in this illustrated edition offer a rich portrait of Parker's early achievement and lasting literary power. Designed for readers discovering her for the first time as well as collectors of classic American literature, this volume is a refined tribute to a writer whose wit still cuts, sparkles, and endures.

Table of contents

• Mr. Durant
• The Wonderful Old Gentleman
• Dialogue at Three in the Morning
• The Last Tea
• Little Curtis
• The Sexes
• Arrangement in Black and White
• A Telephone Call
• Just a Little One
• The Mantle of Whistler
• New York to Detroit
• Big Blonde
• You Were Perfectly Fine
• Godmother
• Partial Comfort
• The Red Dress
• Victoria
• The Counsellor
• Parable For A Certain Virgin
• Bric-à-Brac
• Interior
• Reuben’s Children
• For R. C. B.
• There Was One
• On Cheating The Fiddler
• Incurable
• Fable
• The Second Oldest Story
• A Pig’s-Eye View Of Literature
• Mortal Enemy
• Penelope
• Bohemia
• The Searched Soul
• The Trusting Heart
• Thought for a Sunshiny Morning
• The Gentlest Lady
• The Maid-Servant At The Inn
• Fulfilment
• Daylight Saving
• Surprise
• Swan Song
• On Being a Woman
• Afternoon
• A Dream Lies Dead
• The Homebody
• Second Love
• Fair Weather
• The Whistling Girl
• Story
• Frustration
• Healed
• Landscape
• Post-Graduate
• Verses In The Night
• Liebestod
• For a Favorite Grand-daughter
• Dilemma
• Theory
• A Fairly Sad Tale
• The Last Question
• Superfluous Advice
• Directions for Finding The Bard
• But Not Forgotten
• Two-volume Novel
• Pour Prendre Congé
• For A Lady Who Must Write Verse
• Rhyme Against Living
• Wisdom
• Coda
• Threnody
• The Small Hours
• The False Friends
• The Trifler
• A Very Short Song
• A Well-Worn Story
• Convalescent
• The Dark Girl’s Rhyme
• Epitaph
• Light Of Love
• Wail
• The Satin Dress
• Somebody’s Song
• Anecdote
• Braggart
• Epitaph For A Darling Lady
• To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady
• Paths
• Hearthside
• The New Love
• Rainy Night
• For A Sad Lady
• Reccurence
• Story Of Mrs. W——
• The Dramatists
• August
• The White Lady
• I Know I Have Been Happiest
• Testament
• “I Shall Come Back”
• Condolence
• The Immortals
• A Portrait
• Portrait Of The Artist
• Chant For Dark Hours
• Unfortunate Coincidence
• Verse Reporting Late Arrival At A Conclusion
• Inventory
• Now At Liberty
• Comment
• Plea
• Pattern
• De Profundis
• They Part
• Ballade Of A Great Weariness
• Résumé
• Renunciation
• Day-Dreams
• The Veteran
• Prophetic Soul
• Verse For A Certain Dog
• Godspeed
• Song Of Perfect Propriety
• Social Note
• One Perfect Rose
• Ballade At Thirty-Five
• The Thin Edge
• Love Song
• Indian Summer
• For An Unknown Lady
• The Leal
• Finis
• Words Of Comfort To Be Scratched On A Mirror
• Men
• News Item
• Song Of One Of The Girls
• Lullaby
• Faut De Mieux
• Roundel
• A Certain Lady
• Observation
• Symptom Recital
• Rondeau Redoublé
• Autobiography
• The Choice
• Ballade Of Big Plans
• General Review Of The Sex Situation
• Inscription For The Ceiling Of A Bedroom
• Pictures In The Smoke
• Biographies
• Nocturne
• Interview
• Song In A Minor Key
• Experience
• The Burned Child