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Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker

By: Dorothy Parker
Narrated by: Doris R. Calvo, Aubrey J. Stahr
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Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker is an assortment of work from one of the most quotable of all 20th-century authors—Dorothy Parker, an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York. She was best known for her wit and wisecracks.

Viewed as brilliant, but known to be an alcoholic and often depressed, Parker's work pushes all buttons at once: humor, anger, love, pity, and everything in between. She wrote with pure, unadulterated passion. Her work is timeless and as appropriate to today's society as it was to the time she wrote.

Included in this collection are her first published short story, "Such a Pretty Little Picture", and her O. Henry Award winner "Big Blonde", several other short stories, and, unlike other audio collections, some of her work, including her 1918 New Yorker piece on Tolstoy's play Redemption, and a 1927 Vanity Fair review of Emily Post's Etiquette.

©1927 Dorothy Parker (P)2023 Dorothy Parker
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Book is not as titled!

I was not familiar with Dorothy Parker’s work, and also had not read “The Sun Also Rises” by Hemingway.
About 60% of the way through (chapter 14) the reader introduces a chapter as part of the Hemingway work.
I checked on characters and plot and most of this audiobook isn’t at all what the listing says it is. There may be a couple of short stories and a poem at the beginning that are by Parker but the rest up to at least chapter 14 seems to be a long section of The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.

Confusing, misleading, and very frustrating! I’m going to ask for a refund.

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Unlistenable. Do not purchase!

I very rarely give reviews, but I am compelled to say this is utterly unlistenable. The narrator is bereft of reading talent and does not have any sense of intonation. It is as though a person who doesn’t speak English is sounding out words. The word “grating” leapt to mind and then settled in for as long as I was able to bear listening…which was only long enough to give it a fair chance. It is not easy to recover from this auditory asault. Save your credits. Save your sanity.

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