Sunset Gun

Dorothy Parker

Language: English

Genres: Poetry

Narrators:Winnifred Assmann

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1. Section 1: Godmother; Partial Comfort; The Red Dress; Victoria; The Counsellor
2. Section 2: Parable for a Certain Virgin; Bric-à-brac; Interior; Reuben’s Children; For R.C.B.
3. Section 3: There Was One; On Cheating the Fiddler; Incurable; Fable; The Second Oldest Story
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
5. Section 5: Mortal Enemy; Penelope; Bohemia; The Searched Soul; The Trusting Heart
6. Section 6: Thought for a Sunshiny Morning; The Gentlest Lady; The Maid-Servant at the Inn; Fulfilment; Daylight Saving
7. Section 7: Surprise; Swan Song; On Being a Woman; Afternoon; A Dream Lies Dead
8. Section 8: The Homebody; Second Love; Fair Weather; The Whistling Girl; Story
9. Section 9: Frustration; Healed; Landscape; Post-Graduate
10. Section 10: Verses in the Night: Honeymoon; Triolet; Mélange for the Unknown George; Liebestod; For a Favorite Grand-daughter
11. Section 11: Dilemma; Theory; A Fairly Sad Tale; The Last Question; Superfluous Advice; Directions for Finding the Bard; But Not Forgotten
12. Section 12: Two-Volume Novel; Pour Prendre Congé; For a Lady Who Must Write Verse; Rhyme Against Living; Wisdom; Coda

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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