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Title: The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Katherine Mansfield, Lorna Sage ISBN: 0-14-018880-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: please don't miss this - Mansfield is essential
Comment: If you've never read her short stories (she never wrote anything else), please do, and then read her journal. There is really something incredible that's underneath the surface of her short stories. If you just looked at the surface you might think they were cutesy or affected (little girls figure largely), but you would be completely missing the point. It's hard to explain what's so moving about them. When she describes some lazy afternoon, she just gets it so right that all the vast range of human experience seems to be contained in this afternoon (whereas in any Great American Novel-esque tomes you read only a fraction of that experience is ever expressed). But at the same time, it was just this cute little vignette that had very satisfying descriptions of flowers and little girls playing. The journal will help you understand her sadness as it's expressed in her work. You know when you are very, very upset, and you see something so beautiful or even funny, you're likely to become on the verge of tears? That's how Mansfield sounds in her stories - the stories are that beautiful thing that she sees.
She is most often compared to Chekhov, and it's not difficult to see why. I truly believe that Mansfield innovated and practically invented the English (language) short story.
Rating: 3
Summary: Garden Party
Comment: Mansfield's innovative diction captivates readers and draws one into her own world. A world in which individuals are not bound by the common restraints of society.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Comment: I came across K.M. as she liked to be refered, 60 years after her death. Very late,but better late then never. And especially for K.M. In a german Pension indrigued me first,a review told me, she could have made a lot of money, to publish it again, during the WWI.she declined. She had lost her Brother at the somme, but could not bring herself to more war mongering.
Then I read The Garden Party, and new nearly instandly what kind of person she might have been.
She disliked being priviliged, down the Street, kids her age where starving. The Garden Party gave her an opportunity to disclose Society as what it was. The gap between the Have and Have not.And this in the early 20th century in New Zealand.
And the Garden Party is on of the few stories at the backdrop of New Zealand scenery.
Her Stories make still a highly interesting read, very modern issues with an unbelievable talent for drama, as well as a very dry Sense of humor, like in 'A german Pension'
One or two stories of her are always my companion.
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Title: Stories (Vintage Classics) by Katherine Mansfield, Jeffrey Meyers ISBN: 0679733744 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In a German Pension : 13 Stories by Katherine Mansfield ISBN: 048628719X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks by Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott ISBN: 0816642362 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Selected Tales (Penguin Classics) by Henry James, John Lyon ISBN: 0140436944 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Katherine Mansfield: A Darker View by Jeffrey Meyers ISBN: 0815411979 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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