Wild places : selected stories

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923, author.

Book 2023

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shift of a heart, the beat of a moment, the changing of the light: in these stories emotional universes are contained within glimpses. Mansfield only lived to the age of 34 but in...

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ISBN:

9781784878146
1784878146

Description:

353 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

The tiredness of Rosabel
The child who was tired
The luft bad
A birthday
The swing of the pendulum
How pearl button was kidnapped
The woman at the store
The little governess
An indiscreet journey
The wind blows
Late at night
Prelude
A dill pickle
Pictures
Je ne parle pas francais
Bliss
Carnation
Psychology
The man without a temperament
The escape
Bank holiday
The young girl
The stranger
Miss Brill
The daughters of the Late Colonel
Life of Ma Parker
At the Bay
The voyage
A married man's story
The garden party
The doll's house
A cup of tea
The fly

Control Number:

3264632

Other Authors:

Harman, Claire
Simpson, Helen

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