{"product_id":"the-ladies-of-the-corridor-paperback","title":"The Ladies of the Corridor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Parker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArnaud D'Usseau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarion Meade\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of literature's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of the Corridor\u003c\/i\u003e, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker's life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d'Usseau, \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of the Corridor\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the limitations of a woman's life in a drama teeming with Parker's signature wit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Parker\u003c\/b\u003e was born in West End, New Jersey, in 1893 and grew up in New York, attending a Catholic convent school and Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of \u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e, and was subsequently given an editorial position on the magazine, writing captions for fashion photographs and drawings. She then became drama critic of \u003cb\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/b\u003e and the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamous for her spoken wit, she showed the same trenchant commentary in her book reviews for \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eEsquire\u003c\/b\u003e and in her poems and sketches. Her collection of poems included \u003cb\u003eNot So Deep as a Well and Enough Rope\u003c\/b\u003e, which became a bestseller; and her collections of stories included \u003cb\u003eHere Lies\u003c\/b\u003e. She also collaborated with Elmer Rice on a play, \u003cb\u003eClose Harmony\u003c\/b\u003e and with Arnaud d'Usseau on the play the \u003cb\u003eLadies of the Corridor\u003c\/b\u003e. She herself had two Broadway plays written about her and was portrayed as a character in a third. Her cynicism and the concentration of her judgements were famous and she has been closely associated with modern urbane humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer first husband was Edwin Pond Parker II, and although they were divorced some years later, she continued to use his name, which she much preferred to her own of Rothschild. Her second husband was an actor-writer Alan Campbell. They went to Hollywood as a writing team and went through a tempestuous marriage until his death in 1963, when Dorothy Parker returned to New York. She died in 1967.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarion Meade is the author of \u003cb\u003eDorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties\u003c\/b\u003e. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Victoria Woodhull, and Madame Blavatsky, as well as two novels about medieval France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 7.74 x 5.66 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758588723488,"sku":"9780143105312","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e51dae68a1f2c88ce4be1a37f5d8bed1_186b750a-f867-4a97-96d1-1ed5c23de539.webp?v=1780129941","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-ladies-of-the-corridor-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}