Name: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Price: 593.00 TWD
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Author: Mansfield, Katherine
ISBN: 9789354629914

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Publisher

True Sign Publishing House

Language

English

Pages

152

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9789354629914

Synopsis "The Garden Party and Other Stories"

The Garden Party and Other Stories is a 1922 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories featured, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, "At the Bay, " a vivid impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch "Mrs. Brill, " in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.

Katherine Mansfield

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(New Zealand, 1888 - France 1923) Pseudonym of Kathleen Beauchamp. A New Zealand storyteller who excelled in short novels and brief tales, becoming one of the most emblematic authors of the genre. Her works highlight the vital impulses of humans and their clash with social impositions, and the descriptions of the aristocratic world. She is considered an important figure in literary modernism.

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