Standard of Living, the (1941) [Short Story]
by Dorothy Parker
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Summary
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To pass the time, two young stenographers play the game of "What would you do if you had a million dollars?"
Originally published in The New Yorker, September 1941.
Original title: The Standard of Living
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Modern American Short Stories (1945) [Anthology]
Authors: William Faulkner
, Ernest Hemingway
, John Steinbeck
, Willa Cather
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Eudora Welty
, Jack London
, O. Henry
, Damon Runyon
, Ring Lardner
, Wilbur Daniel Steele
, James Thurber
, William Saroyan
, Irwin Shaw
, Sarah Orne Jewett
, Helen R. Hull
, Stephen Vincent Benét
, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
, Erskine Caldwell
, Dorothy Parker
, Richard Wright
, Mary McCarthy
, Bessie Breuer
, Albert Maltz
Fifty Great Short Stories (1952) [Anthology]
Authors: Aldous Huxley
, Edgar Allan Poe
, J. D. Salinger
, Rudyard Kipling
, William Faulkner
, E. M. Forster
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ernest Hemingway
, Shirley Jackson
, Henry James
, James Joyce
, Alexander Pushkin
, Anton Chekhov
, John Steinbeck
, H. G. Wells
, Edith Wharton
, Virginia Woolf
, Anatole France
, Katherine Anne Porter
, Joseph Conrad
, Lord Dunsany
, Thomas Wolfe
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, W. Somerset Maugham
, E.B. White
, Carson McCullers
, O. Henry
, Frank O'Connor
, John Collier
, Guy de Maupassant
, John O'Hara
, Katherine Mansfield
, Saki
, Ring Lardner
, Wilbur Daniel Steele
, James Thurber
, V. S. Pritchett
, William Saroyan
, Sylvia Townsend Warner
, Irwin Shaw
, Max Beerbohm
, Hector Hugh Munro
, Stephen Vincent Benét
, Arthur Schnitzler
, Clarence Day
, Dorothy Parker
, Robert M. Coates
, Edmund Wilson
, George Milburn
, H. L. Mencken
, Francis Steegmuller
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