The Garden Party and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Mansfield, Katherine; Sage, Lorna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141441801 ISBN 13 : 9780141441801

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.'

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering 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. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141441801
• ISBN 13: 9780141441801
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 159