Sunset Gun
Dorothy Parker
12 chapters · 48 min · English
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Poetry
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Dorothy Parker’s second collection of poetry contains pieces first printed in the Bookman , the New Republic , the Nation , the New Yorker , Life , McCall’s magazine, the Yale Review , the New York World , and the New York Post . - Summary by Winnifred Assmann
Chapters
1 Section 1: Godmother; Partial Comfort; The Red Dress; Victoria; The Counsellor 4 min 2 Section 2: Parable for a Certain Virgin; Bric-à-brac; Interior; Reuben's Children; For R.C.B 4 min 3 Section 3: There Was One; On Cheating the Fiddler; Incurable; Fable; The Second Oldest Story 4 min 4 Section 4: A Pig's Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron; Oscar Wilde; Harriet Beecher Stowe; D. G. Rossetti; Thomas Carlyle; Charles Dickens; Alexandre Dumas and His Son; Alfred Lord Tennyson; George Gissing; Walter Savage Landor; George Sand 3 min 5 Section 5: Mortal Enemy; Penelope; Bohemia; The Searched Soul; The Trusting Heart 3 min 6 Section 6: Thought for a Sunshiny Morning; The Gentlest Lady; The Maid-Servant at the Inn; Fulfilment; Daylight Saving 3 min 7 Section 7: Surprise; Swan Song; On Being a Woman; Afternoon; A Dream Lies Dead 3 min 8 Section 8: The Homebody; Second Love; Fair Weather; The Whistling Girl; Story 5 min 9 Section 9: Frustration; Healed; Landscape; Post-Graduate 2 min 10 Section 10: Verses in the Night: Honeymoon; Triolet; Mélange for the Unknown George; Liebestod; For a Favorite Grand-daughter 5 min 11 Section 11: Dilemma; Theory; A Fairly Sad Tale; The Last Question; Superfluous Advice; Directions for Finding the Bard; But Not Forgotten 6 min 12 Section 12: Two-Volume Novel; Pour Prendre Congé; For a Lady Who Must Write Verse; Rhyme Against Living; Wisdom; Coda 4 min
