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Bliss (Hardcover)
Katherine Mansfield
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and
resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing
apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating
revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with
emotion, Mansfield's stories were integral in shaping the Modernist
movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of
Mansfield's most celebrated stories, including 'Bliss', 'The Garden
Party' and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'. 'The only writing I
have ever been jealous of.' - Virginia Woolf
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San
Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded
as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in
Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to
attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first
book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she
went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This
edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories
that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923.
With an introduction and head-notes, this volume allows the reader
to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from
the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous
recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the
mature, deeply felt stories of her last years. Admired by Virginia
Woolf in her lifetime and by many writers since her death,
Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the
twentieth century.
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Journal (Paperback)
Katherine Mansfield
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'Journal of Katherine Mansfield' is one of the great classics of
20th century literature. Compiled by her husband John Middleton
Murry soon after she died and published in 1927, it consists of
fragments of diary entries, unposted letters, and scraps of
writing.
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Virginia's Sisters (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anna Akhmatova, Marina TSvetaeva, Gabriela Mistral, …
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A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist
contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work,
discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of
the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers
Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall,
Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and
Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters'
from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international
array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in
Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania,
Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching,
research, and development in challenging circumstances. Through
original first-hand experiences from around the world, the
collection reveals how educators in higher education have responded
to the specific needs and challenges of teaching second language
learners in turbulent times, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organised thematically, the book covers rapid responses to crises,
adapting to teaching online, collaborations and online learning
communities, and assessment practices. The volume provides original
insights and practical suggestions for a range of practices across
English for Academic and Specific Purposes that can address new and
unfamiliar circumstances, both now and in future challenging times.
The collection includes a wealth of effective strategies, varied
research methodologies, and resources for practice making it an
invaluable reference for practitioners, students, and researchers
in the field of academic English, ESL/EFL, and online language
instruction.
This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching,
research, and development in challenging circumstances. Through
original first-hand experiences from around the world, the
collection reveals how educators in higher education have responded
to the specific needs and challenges of teaching second language
learners in turbulent times, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organised thematically, the book covers rapid responses to crises,
adapting to teaching online, collaborations and online learning
communities, and assessment practices. The volume provides original
insights and practical suggestions for a range of practices across
English for Academic and Specific Purposes that can address new and
unfamiliar circumstances, both now and in future challenging times.
The collection includes a wealth of effective strategies, varied
research methodologies, and resources for practice making it an
invaluable reference for practitioners, students, and researchers
in the field of academic English, ESL/EFL, and online language
instruction.
Contains all the short stories written during the last year of
Katherine Mansfield's life at Montana, with a new and lengthy
publisher's note.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of
short stories -- In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party
-- during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of
modernism's most daring and original writers. After her death from
tuberculosis in France, Mansfield's private writings and letters
were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in
four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties
in recasting his wife's journals and notes. He excluded most of the
vast mass of material and revised much of what he included,
resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal
spirit.
More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges
in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated
edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed
by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of
letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished
stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists
offer a complete and compelling portrait of a complex woman who was
ambitious and at times ruthless, neurotic and sexually voracious,
witty and acerbic, fascinated with the minutiae of daily life and
obsessed with death.
Radical, witty and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the
twentieth century’s most accomplished short-story writers and this
selection of stories showcases her dazzling skill.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning,
clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon
markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any
book lover. Prelude & Other Stories is edited and introduced by
Professor Meg Jensen.
This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield showcases her
remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as
‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and
corruption, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’
and ‘Love à la Mode’, and in the title story, ‘Prelude’, inspired by
her own childhood, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely.
Collected together for the first time, this selection of short stories
by Katherine Mansfield showcase her remarkable ability to delve deep
into human psychology.
With the exception of the first four stories, all were written
within a period of ten years. These stories, and the letters
following, reflect the urgency of a writer who knew her time was
limited. All but four of the texts of the stories reprinted here
are versions that Mansfield herself revised or selected. Twenty
excerpts from Mansfield s correspondence address the craft of
writing and her own views on her work, subjects rarely broached in
her many letters. "Criticism" includes eighteen essays that
collectively suggest the changing emphases in how Mansfield has
been read by critics. Contributors include fellow writers Rebecca
West, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, V. S. Pritchett,
Elizabeth Bowen, and Frank O Connor, as well as biographers Claire
Tomalin and Vincent O Sullivan, among others. A Selected
Bibliography is also included."
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Selected Stories (Paperback)
Katherine Mansfield; Edited by Angela Smith
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'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been
jealous of.' Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was not the only writer
to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and
Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the
age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers
in the English language. This selection covers the full range of
Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly
nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the
macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay
what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply
etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood
world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether
the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing
Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of
Modernism. This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33
stories and prints them in the order in which they first appeared,
in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most
vivid and distinctive 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
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.'
Fifteen vivid stories set in Europe and Mansfield's native New
Zealand populate this selection of tales inspired by the complex
nature of the human condition. The author delivers an insightful
look at modern behavior post-World War I. The Garden Party and
Other Stories features multiple tales highlighting the highs and
lows of contemporary life. The title story, "The Garden Party,"
centers on a wealthy young woman struggling with the concept of
mortality, while "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" follows two
sisters debating their livelihood after their father's death. These
stories present bold questions and internal conflicts that
profoundly affect each character. This selection is an enduring
part of Katherine Mansfield's legacy. Written during her final
years, The Garden Party and Other Stories is one of her most viable
and celebrated works. It's a delightful collection of short stories
fueled by the intricacies of human nature. With an eye-catching new
cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The
Garden Party and Other Stories is both modern and readable.
Originally published in 1920, Bliss and Other Stories, is an iconic
collection of Katherine Mansfield's masterful narratives that
include "The Man Without a Temperament." This captivating work
embodies the author's signature style and unmistakable tone. Bliss
and Other Stories consists of fourteen anecdotes written during the
early 1900s. It features "Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day," which
follows a disgruntled husband who harshly criticizes his wife, and
"The Wind Blows," a surprising tale about a girl's revelation
surrounding a memory from her childhood. "Pictures" centers a
downtrodden woman on the brink of poverty, while "The Little
Governess" follows a naive young woman as she travels from France
to Munich. In Bliss and Other Stories Mansfield is able to find the
spectacular in the ordinary. No matter the circumstance, the
characters are faced with subtle but shocking realizations. Whether
it's family or friendship, human connection plays a pivotal role.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Bliss and Other Stories is both modern
and readable.
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Poems (Hardcover)
Katherine Mansfield; Introduction by John Middleton Murry
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'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if
they had ordered it' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan
family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes
the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise
casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.
The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions
of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the
end of the Second World War.
La obra de Katherine Mansfield es una de las mĂĄ s interesantes y
heterogĂ© neas de la literatura inglesa del siglo XX. "Cuentos Ă
ntimos" es una antologĂ a que propone acercarse a una autora que
supo mostrarle al mundo que el lugar que la cultura imperante,
patriarcal y heteronormativa, asignaba a la mujer era el de lo Ă
ntimo, pero que esa intimidad a la que habĂ a sido relegada, podĂ
a y debĂ a elevarse a la categorĂ a mĂĄ s trascendente de las
experiencias humanas. Entre las mujeres de los cuentos de Mansfield
abundan auté nticas epifanà as cotidianas, iluminaciones domé
sticas y fabulosas, que son tan transformadoras como
incomunicables, y que actĂș an como un grito de rebeliĂł n, una
rebeliĂł n invisible, protagonizada por todas las formas de ser
mujer en el mundo._x000D_
This is the first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's
fiction. The resurgence of interest in Katherine Mansfield
(1888-1923) in recent years has grown to the extent that she is now
perceived as 'the most emblematic woman writer of her time'.
Mansfield researchers have been frequently frustrated by the lack
of a complete edition of her fiction. There are several editions of
her stories in print, but these omit many pieces not already
collected and published in the volumes edited by Mansfield's
husband John Middleton Murry after her death, from which present
'collected' editions derive. This Edinburgh edition of her stories,
published to coincide with the ninetieth anniversary of her death
in 1923, is a truly complete collection of the author's fiction
writing. The editors have sought to include hitherto uncollected or
rarely seen stories and prose fragments as well as the instantly
recognisable stories. Placed in chronological order and fully
annotated with clear, concise notes, this edition undertakes a
complete remapping of the author's fiction output, from her
earliest childhood pieces to the pitch-perfect quality of the
mature writer at the height of her craft, thereby redefining
Katherine Mansfield as a writer for the twenty-first century. Key
features: brings together all of Mansfield's extant fiction;
refocuses critical attention on one of the most influential
exponents of modernist fiction; the essential Mansfield text for
individual scholars working on Mansfield studies, as well as those
with a more general interest in Mansfield the writer; and,
redefines Mansfield as a writer for the next generation.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in
the development of the modernist short story and her writings were
a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H.
Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some
of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and
students alike vivid new insight into Mansfieldâs creative
process. With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and
transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with
later revisions and the final published work. In the final section
of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings
exploring the manuscript history of these stories. A detailed
descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also
included to help researchers explore the work further. The stories
included are: âJe ne parle pas francaisâ; âSun and Moonâ;
âRevelationsâ; âThe Strangerâ; âThe Daughters of the Late
Colonelâ; âMr and Mrs Doveâ; âMarriage Ă la Modeâ;
âThe Voyageâ; âSix Years Afterâ; âThe Flyâ.
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Garden Stories (Hardcover)
Diana Secker Tesdell; Various; Contributions by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Doris Lessing, …
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Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in
Virginia Woolf's 'Kew Gardens' and from that of a sheltered teenage
girl in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. The family of
Doris Lessing's 'Flavours of Exile' haul succulent vegetables and
fruits from the rich African soil, and Colette in 'Bygone Spring'
luxuriates in extravagantly blooming flowers. Children discover
their own peculiar paradises in Sandra Cisneros's 'The Monkey
Garden' and Italo Calvino's 'The Enchanted Garden', while adult
gardeners find things that move and haunt them in William Maxwell's
'The French Scarecrow' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'The Garden I Have in
Mind'. Gardens of the mind round out the anthology: the beautiful
but fatal garden of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter',
the crystal buds of J. G. Ballard's 'The Garden of Time', ravenous
orchids in John Collier's 'Green Thoughts', and Aoko Matsuda's
'Planting', in which a young woman plants each day whatever she has
been given - roses and violets, buttons and broken cups, love and
fear and sorrow. An entrancing book for everyone who loves gardens
and the beauty of nature.
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Relatos Para Amantes de la Lectura
Stefan Zweig, Adeline Virginia Woolf, Horacio Silvestre Quiroga; Illustrated by Natalia Zaratiegui; Katherine Mansfield
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When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the
young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship
with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the
festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their
working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class
consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality.
Published in 1922, at the height of literary Modernism, `The Garden
Party' is now considered one of the key texts of that movement.
This volume, which also includes all of Katherine Mansfi eld's
other published short stories, is an invaluable resource for anyone
wishing to discover one of the early twentieth century's finest
writers.
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