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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780141441801
ISBN number: 0141441801
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: March 25, 2008
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
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Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'
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When I very first read this collection of short stories 25 years ago I was so impressed by the character 'Kezia' that I decided if I ever had a daughter I would name her Kezia. My daughter Kezia is now 22 and bears the same character traits that I so admired in Mansfield's character!
I was recently in Indonesia interviewing a tea exporter for a history I am writing and I discovered that his granddaughter is named Kezia. I bought a copy of The Garden Party to send her.
Katherine Mansfield is a master of the craft of short story writing and any-one interested in this genre should read her works.
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