Dorothy Parker — The Complete Collection, Volume 1: Illustrated Edition (200 Books)

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

Dorothy Parker

• Publisher: Fanela Publishing
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9786178886844
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

This illustrated collection brings together 200 stories, satirical sketches, and poems by Dorothy Parker, one of the most distinctive and incisive American literary voices of the twentieth century. Featuring celebrated works such as "Big Blonde," "A Telephone Call," "The Waltz," "Résumé," and "News Item," the volume reveals the extraordinary range of Parker's writing: elegant social satire, psychological drama, romantic disillusionment, dark comedy, and sharply compressed poetic observation. Her work captures the manners, anxieties, ambitions, and disappointments of modern urban life with remarkable precision, exposing the loneliness and emotional uncertainty concealed beneath parties, marriages, courtship, polite conversation, and fashionable society. Parker's fiction and satirical sketches are masterpieces of economy, rhythm, and characterization. In "Big Blonde," she creates an unforgettable portrait of loneliness, dependency, and emotional exhaustion, while "A Telephone Call" transforms private romantic anxiety into a powerful dramatic monologue. "The Waltz," "Arrangement in Black and White," "The Standard of Living," and the anthology sketches reveal her talent for exposing vanity, prejudice, hypocrisy, and social cruelty through seemingly ordinary conversations. Her characters are often amusing because they are painfully recognizable, and tragic because their wit, performance, and self-deception cannot protect them from disappointment. Parker's prose remains strikingly modern, moving effortlessly between comedy and despair. The poetry gathered in this edition presents Parker's voice in its most concentrated form: graceful, bitter, musical, intimate, and exact. From the unforgettable brevity of "Résumé" and the satirical brilliance of "News Item" to poems of love, mortality, disappointment, vanity, and self-knowledge, her verse combines formal elegance with emotional candor. Together, the stories, sketches, and poems in this illustrated volume offer a substantial portrait of Parker's literary achievement and enduring influence. Created for new readers and collectors of classic American literature alike, this edition celebrates a writer whose language still sparkles, wounds, amuses, 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
• Clothe the Naked
• Horsie
• Here We Are
• Too Bad
• From the Diary of a New York Lady During Days of Horror, Despair, and World Change
• The Waltz
• Dusk Before Fireworks
• The Little Hours
• Sentiment
• Lady with a Lamp
• Glory in the Daytime
• Soldiers of the Republic
• The Custard Heart
• Such a Pretty Little Picture
• A Certain Lady (Short story)
• Oh! He’s Charming!
• Travelogue
• A Terrible Day Tomorrow
• The Garter
• The Cradle of Civilization
• But the One on the Right
• A Young Woman in Green Lace
• Advice to the Little Peyton Girl
• Mrs. Carrington and Mrs. Crane
• The Road Home
• Cousin Larry
• Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street
• Song of the Shirt, 1941
• The Standard of Living
• The Lovely Leave
• The Game
• I Live on Your Visits
• Lolita
• The Banquet of Crow
• The Bolt Behind the Blue
• Our Tuesday Club
• As the Spirit Moves
• A Dinner Party Anthology
• A Summer Hotel Anthology
• An Apartment House Anthology
• Men I’m Not Married To
• Welcome Home
• Our Own Crowd
• Professional Youth
• 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
• The Satin Dress
• News Item
• Biographies
• Nocturne