Sunset Gun
Dorothy Parker
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Length 48 min
Chapters 12
First published 1928
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
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Section 1: Godmother; Partial Comfort; The Red Dress; Victoria; The Counsellor Read by Winnifred Assmann 3:59
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Section 2: Parable for a Certain Virgin; Bric-à-brac; Interior; Reuben’s Children; For R.C.B. Read by Winnifred Assmann 4:14
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Section 3: There Was One; On Cheating the Fiddler; Incurable; Fable; The Second Oldest Story Read by Winnifred Assmann 4:26
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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 Read by Winnifred Assmann 3:27
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Section 5: Mortal Enemy; Penelope; Bohemia; The Searched Soul; The Trusting Heart Read by Winnifred Assmann 3:03
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Section 6: Thought for a Sunshiny Morning; The Gentlest Lady; The Maid-Servant at the Inn; Fulfilment; Daylight Saving Read by Winnifred Assmann 3:25
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Section 7: Surprise; Swan Song; On Being a Woman; Afternoon; A Dream Lies Dead Read by Winnifred Assmann 3:25
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Section 8: The Homebody; Second Love; Fair Weather; The Whistling Girl; Story Read by Winnifred Assmann 4:37
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Section 9: Frustration; Healed; Landscape; Post-Graduate Read by Winnifred Assmann 2:12
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Section 10: Verses in the Night: Honeymoon; Triolet; Mélange for the Unknown George; Liebestod; For a Favorite Grand-daughter Read by Winnifred Assmann 5:06
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Section 11: Dilemma; Theory; A Fairly Sad Tale; The Last Question; Superfluous Advice; Directions for Finding the Bard; But Not Forgotten Read by Winnifred Assmann 5:54
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Section 12: Two-Volume Novel; Pour Prendre Congé; For a Lady Who Must Write Verse; Rhyme Against Living; Wisdom; Coda Read by Winnifred Assmann 4:26
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