Stories
$39.99
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
7 May 1991
Summary
Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve – and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which thos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679733744 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679733744 |
| Author: | Katherine Mansfield |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 1991 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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“We to her the prosperity of the ‘free’ story: she untrammeled it from conventions and, still more, gained for it a prestige till then unthought of. How much ground Katherine Mansfield broke for her successors may not be realized. Her imagination kindled unlikely matter; she was to alter for good and all our idea of what goes to make a story.” – Elizabeth Bowen
About The Author
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888. From the time of her marriage to John Middleton Murry in 1918 until her death near Paris in 1923, she spent most of her time in Italy, Switzerland and France. Besides her volumes of short stories (all of which are available in The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield, 1937) her works include Poems (1923), Journal (1927), Letters (1928, 1951), all collected and published after her death.
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