The Garden Party and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield author Lorna Sage author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:29th Mar '07

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Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these 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.'

ISBN: 9780141441801

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm

Weight: 145g

192 pages