Title Sunset Gun
Author Dorothy Parker
Year 1928
Publisher Boni & Liveright
Location New York
Source pdf
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Contents

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Godmother 13
Partial Comfort 14
The Red Dress 15
Victoria 16
The Counsellor 17
Parable for a Certain Virgin 18
Bric-à-brac 20
Interior 21
Reuben’s Children 22
For R.C.B. 23
There Was One 24
On Cheating the Fiddler 26
Incurable 27
Fable 28
The Second Oldest Story 29
A Pig’s Eye View of Literature
The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron 30
Oscar Wilde 30
Harriet Beecher Stowe 30
D. G. Rossetti 31
Thomas Carlyle 31
Charles Dickens 31
Alexandre Dumas and His Son 31
Alfred Lord Tennyson 31
George Gissing 32
Walter Savage Landor 32
George Sand 32
Mortal Enemy 33
Penelope 34
Bohemia 35
The Searched Soul 36
The Trusting Heart 37
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning 38
The Gentlest Lady 39
The Maid-Servant at the Inn 40
Fulfilment 41
Daylight Saving 42
Surprise 43
Swan Song 44
On Being a Woman 45
Afternoon 46
A Dream Lies Death 47
The Homebody 48
Second Love 49
Fair Weather 50
The Whistling Girl 51
Story 52
Frustration 53
Healed 54
Landscape 55
Post-Graduate 56
Verses in the Night
Honeymoon 57
Triolet 58
Mélange for the Unknown George 59
Liebestod 60
For a Favorite Grand-daughter 62
Dilemma 63
Theory 64
A Fairly Sad Tale 65
The Last Question 66
Superfluous Advice 67
Directions for Finding the Bard 68
But Not Forgotten 69
Two-Volume Novel 70
Pour Prendre Congé 71
For a Lady Who Must Write Verse 72
Rhyme Against Living 73
Wisdom 74
Coda 75