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A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shift of a heart, the beat of a moment, the changing of the light: in these stories emotional universes are contained within glimpses. Mansfield only lived to the age of 34 but in that time wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit. A hundred years on from her death, Mansfield's biographer, Claire Harman, has created this new selection to show us the master of the short story form in full flight. WITH A FOREWORD BY HELEN SIMPSON AND INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMAN 'There is something rapturous about her work...she has the power to distil the apparently inconsequential into frozen moments laden with significance' Guardian 'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people' Katherine Mansfield

The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a 1923 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield, published by her husband John Middleton Murry after her death. The volume contains all the complete stories, and several fragments of stories, which she wrote at the same time as, or after, those published in The Garden Party, including "The Doll's House„, “Honeymoon„, “A Cup of Tea" and others.

Something Childish and Other Stories is a 1924 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in America as The Little Girl. This anthology was published after her death by her husband John Middleton Murry. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains the stories written between Bliss: and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party: and Other Stories (1922).

The book offers a faithful reproduction of the original text, preserving its authenticity and essence. Readers can expect an accurate representation of the content, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the original work's themes, style, and historical context. This reproduction aims to provide a seamless reading experience while maintaining the integrity of the original material.

“Damn Katherine! Why can’t I be the only woman who knows how to write?” Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield was, most of all, a passionate spirit. Her poems are sometimes traditional, sometimes outbursts of emotion, sometimes experiments akin to prose poems. In all she manages a strange alchemy; ordinary words are somehow transformed into powerful arrows of meaning. These 69 poems were collected together and published in 1923, just after Katherine Mansfield’s death. Many had never been published before; others only in magazines. John Middleton Murry explains in his introductory note that they are effusions of what he calls her ‘exquisite spirit,’ the uniqueness of which guarantees Mansfield her permanent place in twentieth century literature.

The book is a faithful reproduction of the original work, preserving its content and essence. It aims to provide readers with an authentic experience of the text as it was initially presented, maintaining the integrity of the original format and style. This reproduction serves as a valuable resource for those interested in historical literature or for readers seeking to engage with the classic material in its original form.

Exploring themes of class disparity and existential reflection, this collection presents modernized versions of Katherine Mansfield's classic stories. "The Garden Party" delves into the complexities of a wealthy family's gathering, highlighting issues of discrimination and the human experience of love and loss. In "The Fly," a businessman confronts his emotions as he interacts with an old man and a fly, prompting a poignant meditation on memory and grief. These adaptations make Mansfield's profound insights accessible to contemporary readers.

A beguiling new selection of Katherine Mansfield's finest stories, focused on her mysterious, complex portrayals of relationships between women.

Mordant, challenging and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the twentieth century's most accomplished short-story writers. Selected and introduced by Professor Meg Jensen.