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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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Born in New Zealand in 1888, Katherine 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. Something Childish and her journal and letters were published posthumously.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0141441801
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (22 May 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141441801
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141441801
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.91 x 12.7 x 19.69 cm

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Dr.M. Karhoff

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R. M. Peterson

Love and death and loneliness

Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2015

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Until recently, Katherine Mansfield (b. 1888, d. 1923) was simply a name I vaguely associated with English literature. I was prompted to read her due to Philip Larkin's admiration of her, as expressed in his "Letters to Monica". I am rather ashamed of myself. Mansfield is an absolutely first-rate short-story-writer. THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES is stunning, among the best books of short stories that I have read.

The fifteen stories -- actually, some are more "situations" than stories -- are marked by the contradictions and ambiguities of life. And by life's disappointments, in light of which the ephemeral joys are sweeter, more fervently sought and savored. Mansfield is sensitive to class distinctions and to feminist concerns without belaboring them. Half of the stories are set in New Zealand (where Mansfield grew up), and as a whole the stories are imbued with a sense of the colonialist standing on the periphery of things. Many take place by, or on, the sea. Love and death and loneliness propel the stories -- characteristic, of course, of much of literature, but rarely handled so deftly.

Mansfield has a distinctive voice. (One criticism might be that her style is quite similar throughout the book, although I would rather that than forced or jarring modulations.) She parcels out information in small doses, and she approaches her stories, or situations, obliquely. There are a few wonderfully lyrical passages and many fine touches, but overall the prose is a little agitated, somewhat urgent. Mansfield and her stories are not refined and polished, but neither is the Life she writes about.

Amazon is currently offering THE GARDEN PARTY on Kindle for free. Even so, there is good reason to get this Penguin Classics edition -- in addition to the fact that it is an actual book -- and that is for the excellent Introduction by Lorna Sage. Among other things, I learned that Mansfield and Virginia Woolf respected one another as female writers and enjoyed discussing literature together. But Woolf was put off by Mansfield and her strong, sensual personality. After she and her husband had had Mansfield to dinner, Woolf wrote in her diary: "We could both wish that ones first impression of K.M. was not that she stinks like a -- well civet cat that had taken to street walking."

Mansfield wrote most of the stories collected in THE GARDEN PARTY while battling the last stages of the tuberculosis that killed her. One of her biographers posits that she had been infected with the disease by D. H. Lawrence. Whether true or not, Katherine Mansfield was as strong and individuated a person as was Lawrence, and, to my mind, a more rewarding writer.

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Crisp and vivid

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in her short life Kaherine Mansfield became a master of the crisp, vivd short story, and this is arguably her best collection. Although written a hundred years ago, her use of language cuts directly to us today. thoroughly enjoyable.

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Perfect condition, very interesting book of short stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2017

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Perfect condition, very interesting book of short stories. Would certainly recommend to any feminists or readers interested in realism.

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Excellent short stories

Reviewed in the United States on 11 January 2014

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Very beautiful, thoughtful writing. Many of the stories reflect the author's experiences and thoughts about death and dying. They are not superficial fortunately, but not depressing either

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