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The collected letters of Katherine Mansfield / edited by Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott.
LIBRA PR9639.3.M258 Z48 1984 v.1-5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Correspondence.
- Mansfield, Katherine.
- Authors, New Zealand--20th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, New Zealand.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- The letters in this volume cover the eighteen months Katherine Mansfield spent in England, France and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. There is a subtle but unmistakable change in her expectations, a new 'spiritual' insistence that is both elusive and resolute. From her Chekovian acceptance that 'they are cutting down the cherry trees' she derives a tough existential directness: 'the little boat enters the dark, fearful gulf ... Nobody listens. The shadowy figure rows on. One ought to sit still and uncover one's eyes.' There is a determined push - not always successful - towards a necessary honesty, as much as to artistic achievement; while those qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished - the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness as much as sheer fun. Above all, perhaps, these letters comprise a record of very considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as they approach the final years of her life.
- Contents:
- v. 1. 1903-1917.
- v. 2. 1918-1919.
- v. 3. 1919-1920.
- v.4. 1920-1921
- v.5. 1922-1923.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: vol. 1 only.
- ISBN:
- 0198126131
- OCLC:
- 9644680
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