Epinions Recent Reviews for Parker, Dorothy

Parker, Dorothy: Mr. Brown and the Vicious Fifth-Graders

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:04:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kchowell - I owe my lifelong appreciation for Dorothy Parker to my fifth grade English teacher, Mr. Brown. This is not because he was a teacher who encouraged me to expand my horizons and challenge myself to read things outside of the children’s section. In fact,...

Parker, Dorothy: DOROTHY PARKER: Mistress Of Poetry, Lady of Prose

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:59:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author emlin - When I was young and immortal and living in Manhattan, one of my favorite NYC haunts was The Algonquin Hotel. I would walk the carpeted rooms in the public areas knowing that my literary heroine, Dorothy Rothschild Parker, had traveled much the same...

Parker, Dorothy: Dorothy knows people

Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:44:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author SonyaR - If I were limited to re-reading only, say, ten books for the rest of my life...well, I'd probably kill myself. But as Ms. Parker so precisely puts it in her most famous poem, 'Résumé':

Razors pain you;

Rivers are damp;

Acids stain...