Dorothy Parker

Reducere. "I love a martini-- But two at the most. Three, I m under the table; Four, I m under the host." Raise a glass to Dorothy Parker s wit and wisdom. K...

Includes poetry, short stories, articles and reviews.

Reducere. Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist's debut collection--a runaway bestseller in 1926--ranges from lighthearted self-depreca...

Reducere. Lee Israel's near-two year caper of forging letters from Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward and others is reflected on, with a film of Israel's story set ...

One day, a great storm takes Dorothy, and her dog Toto, to Oz. They have to follow the yellow brick road and find the Wizard of Oz to go home. Doro...

Reducere. The title story, The Hanging Tree, is based on a true episode in Montana's gold-mining past. Three amazing characters meet: the cynical Doc Frail; ...

Combining elements of biography, criticism and social and cultural history, an exploration of the rise of piercing and insightful writers in mid-tw...

A dinner party during the Second World War unites celebrated writers Agatha Christie, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ...

Reducere. CADENZAS is a work of fiction that narrates a conversation between music and language, with walkins by Dorothy Parker, Dante, Edith Sitwell, J.S. B...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Dawg Towne explores universal themes of love and loss through the deceptively simple lens of suburban life. But is life in the suburbs ever really ...

Reducere. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens ...

Reducere. A nobleman with a penchant for solving mysteries works to uncover the truth about a dead body found in the bathtub of an architect's home. This is ...

Fran Lebowitz inPublic SpeakingA Martin Scorsese PictureNow an HBO(r) Documentary Film The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with...

Reducere. Vermont's history is marked by fierce independence, generosity of spirit and the saga of human life along its steep slopes and fertile valleys. Mee...

Reducere. Vermont's history is marked by fierce independence, generosity of spirit and the saga of human life along its steep slopes and fertile valleys. Mee...

Reducere. One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011 "Agatha Christie lives You'll love this book." --John Lescroart Welcome to Edinburgh, 1926. Dandy ...

Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and bes...

Reducere. At the helm of America's most influential literary magazine for more than half a century, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting ...

Reducere. As the title of this gorgeous collection suggests, Would-Land is an adventure in wordplay and the discoveries of our heart- and hearth-truths that ...

Reducere. Iresponsabil, nespălat, fermecător şi fără un ban inbuzunar, Sebastian Dangerfield, student la Drept laColegiul Trinity, irlandez american cu accen...

Reducere. Iresponsabil, nespalat, fermecator si fara un ban in buzunar, Sebastian Dangerfield, student la Drept la Colegiul Trinity, irlandez american cu acc...

Reducere. Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the Best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, T...

Reducere. Dorothy Parker observed, ``It's a man's world;`` the ladies profiled in Women Who Launch would beg to differ. Unlike the matrons of the 1950s-the w...

Contributor(s): Editor: J. Patrick LewisIt's all about us Join former U.S. Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis on a lyrical journey through t...

Reducere. Manhattan s past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city s ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington s emotional...

DescriptionManhattan's past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city's ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington'...

A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defen...

Reducere. The teenage years are a time filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. Sometimes it feels that every day brings a new ...

Reducere. Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize i...

Reducere. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt, " writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a j...

Reducere. Iresponsabil, nespalat, fermecator si fara un ban in buzunar, Sebastian Dangerfield, student la Drept la Colegiul Trinity, irlandez american cu acc...

Reducere. DescriptionScott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material a...

Reducere. Polly Adler's "house" -- the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title -- was a major site of New York City underworld activ...

Reducere. DescriptionWidely praised in hardcover, Sharp is the exhilarating story of ten exceptional women who used the power of their pens to carve out spac...

DescriptionIn this charmingly illustrated collection of pet-related stories children will find out about some of history's most important scientist...

Reducere. A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way - Roger Angell on the art of the martini - Don DeLillo on Jell-O - Malcolm Gladwell...

Reducere. After her grandmother dies, a girl travels to different gardens to scatter her ashes, learning about life and love along the way. From Love Letters...

Reducere. DescriptionThis delightful mystery is the second featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. When his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murder then it is...

DescriptionExperience the glamor and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it It was a time of unimagined new free...

Reducere. Description"Fun, cheeky" (Booklist), and a visual delight, What Would Cleopatra Do? shares the wisdom and advice passed down from Cleopatra, Queen ...

Reducere. Dancer, painter, writer, muse, passionate lover, and freethinker, Zelda Fitzgerald is one of the most iconic figures of the Jazz Age. Born in Alaba...

Reducere. Robert Charles Benchley was born on September 15th, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Benchley wrote over 600 essays and is a humorist best known f...

Reducere. Thirty years ago, John Keats and his family purchased a two-acre island in the St. Lawrence River, at a time when boats were still lovingly crafted...