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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry ( 1888 - 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. When she was 19 Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34. In this book: In a German Pension, (1911) The garden party and other stories, (1922) Something Childish and Other...
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry ( 1888 - 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zeala...
"Miss Brill," the bittersweet story of a fragile woman living an ephemeral life of observation and simple pleasures in Paris, established Mansfield as one of the preeminent writers of the Modernist period. The title story, which involved a similar character facing her husband's infidelity, also found critical acclaim. -Wikipedia
"Miss Brill," the bittersweet story of a fragile woman living an ephemeral life of observation and simple pleasures in Paris, established Mansfield as...
2015 Reprint of Original 1951 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with color, 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...
2015 Reprint of Original 1951 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Innovative, startlin...
Mansfield's Bliss, and Other Stories, published in 1920, secured the author's literary reputation. Readers and critics at the time lauded the short fiction collection, with controversial subject matters like infidelities, discussions of sexuality, cruel and superficial characters. "Bliss" is one of Mansfield's most frequently anthologized stories and still resonates with modern readers.
Mansfield's Bliss, and Other Stories, published in 1920, secured the author's literary reputation. Readers and critics at the time lauded the short fi...
