- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classic; 1 edition (May 29 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0141441801
- ISBN-13: 978-0141441801
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.2 x 19.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 100 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #319,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.'
About the Author
Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.
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How katherine Mansfield became part of my family, Jan 6 2009
By Ms. Jillian Adams - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Penguin Classics Garden Party And Other Stories (Paperback)
When I first read this collection of short stories 25 years ago I was so impressed by the character 'Kezia' that I decided if I ever had a daughter I would name her Kezia. My daughter Kezia is now 22 and bears the same character traits that I so admired in Mansfield's character!I was recently in Indonesia interviewing a tea exporter for a history I am writing and I discovered that his granddaughter is named Kezia. I bought a copy of The Garden Party to send her.
Katherine Mansfield is a master of the craft of short story writing and any-one interested in this genre should read her works.
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