7 pages In: The Doves' Nest and Other Stories Honeymoon was probably written in Paris and first appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum on 29 April 1922. The setting is not specified but seems to be the south of France, and the two characters in the story are ‘abroad’ which suggests that they are probably from New Zealand. The story is related largely from Fanny’s point of view,...
The Project Gutenberg Ebook, 2008. – 257 p. Language: English. In a German Pension (1911) is a remarkable collection of short stories, displaying all Katherine Mansfield’s skill in the genre, written shortly after the author visited Germany as a young woman. Germans at Meat. The Baron. The Sister of the Baroness. Frau Fischer. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding. The Modern...
London: Constable & Co., 1923. — 112 p. Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry 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. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close...
The Sheridan family is preparing to host a garden party. Laura is supposed to be in charge but has trouble with the workers who appear to know better, and her mother (Mrs. Sheridan) has ordered lilies to be delivered for the party without Laura's approval. Her sister Jose tests the piano, and then sings a song in case she is asked to do so again later. After the furniture is...
(Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) 1998 - Introduction - Further Reading - A Note on the Text - The Garden Party and Other Stories: - 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...
(Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) 1998 - Introduction - Further Reading - A Note on the Text - The Garden Party and Other Stories: - 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...
Project Gutenberg, 1998. - 122 p. Katherine Mansfield is probably the most famous writer from New Zealand. Her short stories are full of spiritual power and feminine life perception. All her literary works are remarkable by a special psychological analysis of the character. Modern critics consider Mansfield to be a very sincere author, who writes from her personal inner world...
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