The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) [Paperback]

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Lorna Sage (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Penguin Classics | Publication Date: March 25, 2008

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, 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 woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in "At the Bay". 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'

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About the Author

Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (March 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141441801
• ISBN-13: 978-0141441801
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #728,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How katherine Mansfield became part of my family, January 6, 2009

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Ms. Jillian Adams (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

When I first read this collection of short stories 25 years ago I was so impressed by the character 'Kezia' that I decided if I ever had a daughter I would name her Kezia. My daughter Kezia is now 22 and bears the same character traits that I so admired in Mansfield's character!

I was recently in Indonesia interviewing a tea exporter for a history I am writing and I discovered that his granddaughter is named Kezia. I bought a copy of The Garden Party to send her.

Katherine Mansfield is a master of the craft of short story writing and any-one interested in this genre should read her works.