WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH
Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including 'Honesty', an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and 'The Doves' Nest', an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters' inner lives.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141441818
Number of pages: 816
Weight: 553 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 34 mm
I bought this book by Mansfield to see what she was about. I wanted to see how her short stories differ from the late William Trevor's shorts.
I can see a different structures from both writers, although I have...
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I can't recommend Katherine Mansfield's short stories enough; it feels like she has given voice to things I have wished to articulate before but haven't quite found the language to do so. Despite... More
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