Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield ; introduction by Jeffrey Meyers
Edition: 1st Vintage Classics ed.
Series: Vintage classics
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780679733744
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jeffrey Meyers; title: Tiredness of Rosabell (written 1908; published 1924); title: Baron (1910); title: Modern (1911); title: Woman at the store (1912); title: Ole underwood (1913); title: Little governess (1915); title: Prelude (1918); title: At the bay (1922); title: Psychology (1920); title: Bliss (1918); title: Je ne Parle Pas Francais (1920); title: Sun and moon (1920); title: This flower (1924); title: Man with a temperament (1920); title: Revelations (1920); title: Young girl (1920); title: Stranger (1921); title: Daughters of the late Colonel (1921); title: Life of Ma parker 91921); title: Singing lesson (1921); title: Voyage(1921); title: Garden-party (1922); title: Miss Brill(1920); title: Marriage a la mode (1921); title: Doll's house (1922); title: Doves' nest t(1923); title: Six years after (1923); title: Fly (1923).