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The collected stories of Katherine Mansfield / introduction by Sloane Crosley.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.M258 C65 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923, author.
- Series:
- Modern Library torch bearers
- The Modern Library Torchbearers
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New Zealand.
- Europe--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Europe.
- Short stories, New Zealand--20th century.
- Short stories, New Zealand.
- Short stories, English--20th century.
- Short stories, English.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 427 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Modern Library Trade Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Modern Library, 2026.
- Summary:
- "In New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield's brief yet blazing literary career, she became a pillar of early-twentieth-century modernism, and left behind her own dazzling body of work. The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield--which includes her two major collections of short stories, Bliss and The Garden Party, in their entirety--presents, in one volume, the oeuvre of a singular talent. In these stories, Mansfield explores themes of class and social dynamics, sexuality, and family and domestic dramas, all captured in crystalline, slyly humorous vignettes. In "Miss Brill," a young woman dons her finest fur to stroll through the stately Jardins Publiques, only to be cut down by a stray remark. In "A Cup of Tea," a rich woman is moved to help someone less fortunate than herself, and finds that her charity comes at a cost. Mansfield (who married twice and was romantically involved with both men and women) often turns her discerning eye to romantic relationships: in "A Dill Pickle," former lovers meet by chance; in "Bliss," the exuberant hostess of a dinner party discovers a shocking truth about her own relationships. Yet as Sloane Crosley writes in her introduction, Mansfield was also a brilliant writer of children, as in the classic coming-of-age tale "The Garden Party," and her masterful triptych of New Zealand stories, "Prelude," "At the Bay," and "The Doll's House." It is ultimately through the eyes of her youngest characters, their disappointments as well as their sense of wonder and openness, that we see the possibilities in our ordinary world." -- Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Bliss: Prelude
- Je ne parle pas Franc̜ais
- Bliss
- The wind blows
- Psychology
- Pictures
- The man without a temperament
- Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day
- Sun and moon
- Feuille d'Album
- A dill pickle
- The little governess
- Revelations
- The escape
- The garden party: At the bay
- The garden-party
- The daughters of the late colonel
- Mr. and Mrs. Dove
- The young girl
- Life of Ma Parker
- Marriage à la mode
- The voyage
- Miss Brill
- Her first ball
- The singing lesson
- The stranger
- Bank holiday
- An ideal family
- The lady's maid
- Selected stories: The doll's house
- The tiredness of Rosabel
- A cup of tea
- Bains Turcs
- The woman at the store
- Six years after
- Poison.
- Contains:
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Short stories. Selections (Bliss and other stories)
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923. Short stories. Selections (Garden party and other stories)
- ISBN:
- 9780593979563
- 0593979567
- OCLC:
- 1576252181
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