The Collected Dorothy Parker – also published as The Penguin Dorothy Parker and The Portable Dorothy Parker in various editions – is a collection of Parker’s short stories, poetry, monologues, and book and play reviews. Parker brilliantly captures the spirit of the decadent Jazz Age in New York, where she lived and grew up, exposing both the dazzle and the darkness. Beneath her electrifying wit was a woman for whom happiness was, at best, precarious.
