The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins)

Author(s): Katherine Mansfield

Fiction

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'.


'All that I write, ' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'  


 


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Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. Among her most well known stories are "The Garden Party," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," and "The Fly." During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the age of 34.

General Fields

  • : 9780143205968
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.098
  • : July 2010
  • : 181mm X 111mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : October 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Katherine Mansfield
  • : Paperback
  • : Reprint
  • : FIC
  • : Very Good
  • : 159