The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield
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Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly.Tags
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"The child-who-was-tired," this was my favorite story in this collection. I like this author for her observation skills; she lets you see the humans in her world. Hypocrites, hypochondriacs, selfish, self-righteous, arrogant, flesh-eating, . . . All the assholes all around us every day are brought to life in these stories. A delight.
clever, poetic, amazing variety of characters that she's able to take on, from children to elderly ladies, prostitutes, maids, upper class, and she writes them all convincingly.
I love that she always leaves the reader thinking about the fate of the characters at the end of the story. I also find myself meditating on the personalities of the characters after reading one of her stories, as if they were real people. That's what makes me feel she was a great writer.
I love that she always leaves the reader thinking about the fate of the characters at the end of the story. I also find myself meditating on the personalities of the characters after reading one of her stories, as if they were real people. That's what makes me feel she was a great writer.
Katherine Mansfield é uma das melhores contistas de sua época, mas ficou relegada a um segundo plano, principalmente após as acusações de que seu conto The Child Who Was Tired seria um plágio do conto Olhos Mortos de Sono, de Tchékhov.
Com o mestre russo ela aprendeu sobre a tragédia do acúmulo de pequenas circunstâncias, a construir as cenas com uma grande atenção para o detalhe. Mansfield é também muito irônica, satírica.
Contos como Je Ne Parle Pas Français, The Fly e The Garden Party, para citar poucos, são verdadeiras bras primas.
Com o mestre russo ela aprendeu sobre a tragédia do acúmulo de pequenas circunstâncias, a construir as cenas com uma grande atenção para o detalhe. Mansfield é também muito irônica, satírica.
Contos como Je Ne Parle Pas Français, The Fly e The Garden Party, para citar poucos, são verdadeiras bras primas.
I thought Katherine Mansfield's collected short stories were okay. I might have liked them better if I hadn't read her collected works -- some of the stories were good, others were just so-so. I didn't find them particularly noteworthy or memorable thought.
Haven't read all of the short stories yet but enjoyed many of them so far. Keep coming back to it to read more every so often. Hope to finish it someday. Haven't read it for a while but liked some that were stories of moments in the lives of ordinary people.
(Prelude, The Fly, and The Garden Party)
amazing. people need to pay more attention to mansfield.
amazing. people need to pay more attention to mansfield.
The only short-story writer that comes close to Chekhov. Brilliant.
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Katherine Mansfield was born Katherine Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand on October 14, 1888, the third daughter of a prominent banker. She attended the Wellington College for Girls before entering Queen's College in London in 1903. Her interest in the cello led to lessons at the Royal Academy of Music, where she became secretly engaged to a show more young prodigy named Arnold Trowell, who already had a successful concert career. Upon being summoned back to New Zealand by her father in 1906, she decided to abandon music in favor of writing. She soon had three stories published in a Melbourne monthly and gained her father's consent to return to England. Once there, she became depressed when she found that Trowell no longer loved her, and she rushed into a hasty marriage to a young musician, only to leave him a few days later. She had a miscarriage, which marked the beginning of her decline in health. After returning to England in 1910, Katherine Beauchamp published her work under the name Katherine Mansfield. A collection of her stories, "In a German Pension," was published in 1911. A year later, she met John Middleton Murry, who eventually became her second husband when she was finally able to secure a divorce. By the time of this marriage in 1918, Mansfield was found to have tuberculosis. Her ill health, combined with the death of her brother in World War I, turned the focus of her work inward and on her homeland. Her memoirs, collected in a book entitled "Bliss," secured her reputation as a writer, and she followed it up with the equally acclaimed "Garden Party and Other Stories." Her lyrical style and stream of consciousness method placed her along side James Joyce and Virginia Woolf for her strength of characterization and her subtlety of detail. Katherine Mansfield died on January 9, 1923 at the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonic Development of Man at Fontainebleau. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
- Original publication date
- 1945
- Dedication
- For my husband
ANTHONY JOHN RANSON
with love from your wife, the publisher.
Eternally grateful for your undonditional love,
not just for me but for our children,
Simon, Andrew and Nichola Trayler - First words
- There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy.
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