The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield, Ali Smith

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Penguin
01 June 2007

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Penguin Black Classics; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

With a new introduction by Ali Smith

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH

Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including 'Honesty', an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and 'The Doves' Nest', an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters' inner lives.

By: Katherine Mansfield
Introduction by: Ali Smith
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9780141441818
ISBN 10: 014144181X
Pages: 816
Publication Date: 01 June 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in New Zealand in 1888, Kathering Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. One more book (Something Childish) and her journal and letters were published posthumously. Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. Her first novel, Like, was published to critical acclaim in 1997. Among her other works, Other Stories and Other Stories (1999), Hotel World (2001), The Whole Story and Other Stories (2003) and The Accidental (2004), which won the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.