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Selected Stories

✍ Scribed by Mansfield, Katherine

Book ID: 108501143
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 450 KB
Series: Text Classics
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Here in one volume are twenty-three of the finest stories by Katherine Mansfield. Considered one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, Mansfield was from a young age heavily influenced by Anton Chekhov, a master of the form.

This new selection, with an introduction by the novelist Emily Perkins, ranges across Mansfield's oeuvre and shows the New Zealander's dazzling brilliance.

The stories in this collection:

At the Bay

The Lady's Maid

Mr. and Mrs. Dove

The Garden Party

Marriage a la Mode

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

The Life of Ma Parker

Bliss

The Fly

The Doll's House

Her First Ball

An Ideal Family

The Escape

The Little Governess

Pictures

Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day

The Luft Bad

Miss Brill

A Birthday

Je ne parle pas francais

Psychology

A Dill Pickle

The Tiredness of Rosabel

Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington in 1888 and left...

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