Name: The Garden Party and Other Stories
SKU: 1864366
Price: 31.81 NZD
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9780141441801

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Synopsis "The Garden Party and Other Stories "

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.'

Katherine Mansfield

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(New Zealand, 1888 - France 1923) Pseudonym of Kathleen Beauchamp. A New Zealand storyteller who excelled in short novels and brief tales, becoming one of the most emblematic authors of the genre. Her works highlight the vital impulses of humans and their clash with social impositions, and the descriptions of the aristocratic world. She is considered an important figure in literary modernism.

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