Publisher Description
This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in the short story genre.
Contents:
“Prelude”
“Je ne Parle pas Français”
“Bliss”
“The Wind Blows”
“Psychology”
“Pictures”
“The Man without a Temperament”
“Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day”
“Sun and Moon”
“Feuille d’Album”
“A Dill Pickle”
“The Little Governess”
“Revelations”
“The Escape”
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"I do see why Virginia Woolf considered Mansfield her greatest threat; yet, she and her husband published her work.
Despite influences from Chekhov, her stories are her own and reveal many a folly into which we fall.
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R.a. (4 out of 5 stars)
About Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on subsequent writers in the same genre.
About the Narrators
Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.
Susannah Fullerton, OAM FRS, has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over twenty-five years. She is Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia, a founding member of the NSW Dickens Society, and of the Australian Bronte Association. Susannah is Sydney’s best-known lecturer on classic novels. She lectures regularly at the Art Gallery of NSW, at the State Library of NSW, at conferences, schools, and libraries around Australia and overseas.
James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.