|
Showing 1 - 25 of
43 matches in All Departments
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."
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.
Presenting thirty-five stories from seven collections published
over more than forty years, Vincent O'Sullivan's Selected Stories
is a milestone in the career of one of New Zealand's leading
writers. `Vincent O'Sullivan's short fictions go straight to the
heart of human experience. They are by turn tender, deeply moving,
unsparing and often witty, endowed with a sly humour that cuts
through his characters' foibles and pretensions. He is simply one
of our very best storytellers, with total mastery of his
craft.'-Fiona Kidman `These finely attuned, wry and deeply moving
stories that have been gathered together here are executed with
such compassion and grace that we might not even be aware at the
time of our reading just how much they have taught us about what it
is to be human and frail in this large world.'-Kirsty Gunn `Vincent
O'Sullivan ranks with the best worldwide. His stories are as fine
as any being written today.'-Kevin Ireland
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.
|
Volpone
Robert Baldwin Ross, Aubrey Beardsley, Vincent O'Sullivan
|
R913
Discovery Miles 9 130
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Volpone
Robert Baldwin Ross, Aubrey Beardsley, Vincent O'Sullivan
|
R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Saint Augustin (Hardcover)
Louis Bertrand; Translated by Vincent O'Sullivan
|
R1,687
R1,312
Discovery Miles 13 120
Save R375 (22%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Saint Augustin (Paperback)
Louis Bertrand; Translated by Vincent O'Sullivan
|
R1,066
R855
Discovery Miles 8 550
Save R211 (20%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
"A Dissertation Upon Second Fiddles", first published in 1902 is a
collection of four, slightly interconnected, stories. O'Sullivan's
characters flit between the stories, all of which have a slightly
moralistic purpose. However, O'Sullivan's macabre sense of humour
ensures that the tales do not preach, and he puts his black wit to
good use in this hard-to-find collection. "Of Kindred" describes a
mysterious German stranger proffering advice to the large and
corpulent Sir Hugh Anger so that he can resolve his hypochondria
and live a longer, healthier life. "Of Accomplices" is the story of
Shawlcoat Vellery, a good and virtuous man, who rather bored with
his righteousness, comes across the anarchical and nihilistic
Labour Argan. Vellery decides to act as Argan's henchman in various
schemes but the results are not as anticipated. "Of Friends"
describes Nicolas and his wife Hester. The pompous Nicolas is
persuaded to make a speech for a local politician but it ends
disastrously when Nicolas is attacked and beaten by ruffians. While
Nicolas is recovering in bed, the MP, a portly gentleman of some 50
years, who has admired Nicolas's russet-haired wife with her
"strong white neck, and the perfect and most pleasing harmony of
her whole frame", takes his chance to try "to beat down the guard"
of the unfortunate Hester. "Of Enemies" is the tale of a flighty,
yet pretty, novelist, Mrs Ardour, who comes across a short story in
an obscure magazine. She decides to steal the plot and sets on
writing a novel based on the story. When the original writer
discovers this plagiarism, Mrs Ardour uses all her skills and wiles
to ruin him completely.
"To help a man is like reviving an assassin who has designs on your
life. ... A sense of obligation engenders a sense of hate." This
book of monologues contains twenty-five short, pithy, often
cynical, prose pieces from the acerbic pen of the late
nineteenth-century writer, Vincent O'Sullivan. First published in
1899, the collection captures the aesthetics of the Decadence
movement with its emphasis on excess, transgression and sensuality.
O'Sullivan's circle included Oscar Wilde, Leonard Smithers, Aubrey
Beardsley and other fin-de-siecle luminaries. O'Sullivan provides
each monologue with an enigmatic mononym, such as 'Sob', 'Wear',
'Crave'. A concept that is extended in this edition by the
inclusion of images, notably Beardsley's "The Litany of Mary
Magdalen", to accompany, but not necessarily to illustrate, the
prose. Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born into a prosperous
Irish American family in New York and moved to London as a child.
He spent much of his life in the demi-monde world that is the
setting of his books and stories, ultimately dying penniless and
being buried in a pauper's grave in Paris.
|
Saint Augustin (Paperback)
Louis Bertrand; Translated by Vincent O'Sullivan
|
R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Classic Weird (Paperback)
W. C. Morrow, E. F. Benson, Vincent O'Sullivan; Edited by David A. Riley
|
R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
The Green Window (Hardcover)
Vincent O'Sullivan, Chiswick Press Bkp Cu-Banc, Carey McWilliams
|
R836
Discovery Miles 8 360
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
|