num_pages: 108
description: Born in New Zealand, educated in England, Katherine Mansfield was an advanced thinker and adventurous spirit who was not bound by the Victorian conventions in which she had been raised. Extremely independent, at the age of twenty she left England for the Bavarian spa town of Bad Wörishofen. It was there that she wrote what would become IN A GERMAN PENSION, her first published collection of short stories.Sometimes wry, sometimes savagely satirical, but always unsparing, Mansfield depicts overindulgence, self-satisfaction, social climbing, pettiness, and brutality endemic to the pre-World War European middle class. With a clarity of vision far beyond her years, Mansfield presents in this collection the views and concerns of a serious, modern woman of her day, setting the stage for women writers of later generations.
language: English
title: In a German Pension
titlecomplete: In a German Pension
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature, Classic Literature, German Literature, Female Authors, Classics, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1017
publisher: Bantam Books