SELECTED STORIES - KATHERINE MANSFIELD #

Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early deaths at the age of 34 cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the english language.This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nunanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous ' A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls ' a debt of love' to New Zealad are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expression of Modernism.this new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and prints them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers.This editon includesIntroduction - Textual note - bibliography - Chronology - Explanatory notes CONTENTS Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding The Woman at the Store How Pearl Button was Kidnapped Millie Something Childish but very Natural The Little Governess An Indiscreet Journey The Wind Blows Prelude Mr Reginald Peacock's Day Feuille d'Album A Dill Pickle Fe ne parle pas francais Sun and Moon Bliss Psychology Pictures The Man Without a Temperament The Stranger Miss Brill The Daughter of the Kate Colonel Life of Ma Parker Mr and Mrs Dove Her First Ball Marriage