num_pages: 160
description: 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.'
language: English
title: The Garden Party and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Garden Party and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Womens, Female Authors, School, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 10996
places: New Zealand
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Penguin Books