Katherine Mansfield

'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it'A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour's demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly.

Dernier recueil publi du vivant de son auteur, La Garden-party commence l'aube d'une journ e radieuse pour s'achever la nuit noire, dans une chambre o s'endormira bient t une femme sans ge ni visage. Une nouvelle apr s l'autre, Katherine Mansfield peint la vie par petites touches, tendres, cocasses, poignantes, parfois cruelles. Elle dit la solitude, la peur et la mort, partout pr sentes, m me dans la baie des vacances et de l'enfance.

Havefesten og andre fortællinger cementerede Katherine Mansfields anseelse som en af de mest indflydelsesrige modernister i sin samtid og regnes i dag for en moderne klassiker. Katherine Mansfield var født og opvokset i New Zealand, men flyttede som ganske ung til Storbritannien, hvor hun blev boende resten af sit liv. Novellesamlingen Havefesten og andre fortællinger udkom i 1922 kort før hendes død og består af 15 noveller, som alle undersøger de uudtalte, halvt fremstammede følelser, der udgør det hverdagslige liv. Mange af fortællingerne udspiller sig i hjemlandet og varierer i tone og længde, fra den lange åbningsnovelle ’Ved bugten’ – en levende, impressionistisk fremkaldelse af familielivet – til den lille komprimerede ’Miss Brill’, hvor en ensom kvindes spinkle selvværd på brutal vis bliver ødelagt, da hun overhører to elskendes fortrolige samtale. Mansfield døde kun 34 år gammel efter længere tids sygdom, men står tilbage som en af modernismens væsentlige stemmer. Pressen skriver: »Mansfields penduleren mellem væren og refleksion er ikke blot en effektfuld litterær strategi; bevægelsen synes at afspejle den menneskelige bevidsthed, og når en forfatter som Virginia Woolf med god grund beundrede Mansfields skrift, tror jeg, det skyldes, at hun som få formår at omdanne denne uhåndgribelige proces til gnistrende, præcise sætninger.« – Weekendavisen »Katherine Mansfields prosa er vidunderlig […] Læs, læs, læs Katherine Mansfield.« – Information »Det er bragende godt, ganske enkelt.« ***** – Litteraturlinjer.dk »Disse noveller er som musik – man bliver fanget af stemninger og beskrivelser. Forfatterens brug af impressionistiske virkemidler er imponerende.« – lektør Inger Nygaard Kaad

En novellsamling med tio berättelser av Katherine Mansfield som aldrig tidigare översatts till svenska. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Nya Zeelands litterära ikon, räknas till en av de främsta novellisterna i den engelskspråkiga världen och har jämförts med Anton Tjechov och Oscar Wilde. Mansfields iakttagelseförmåga är mästerlig och hennes tänkvärda och underfundiga historier är fortfarande fängslande. De kan läsas flyktigt som ren underhållning eller analyseras och diskuteras, då de ofta har ett underliggande budskap. I novellen Nya klänningar har Mrs Carsfield knåpat ihop ett par klänningar av dyraste kaschmirtyg till sina döttrar – den ena välartad och tacksam, den andra besvärlig och otacksam. Det missförstådda och orättvist behandlade barnet provocerar sina föräldrar medvetet ... De tio berättelserna i detta urval ingår alla i novellsamlingen “Something Childish and Other Stories” (1924). “I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have ever been jealous of.” Virginia Woolf

In deceptively simple language, Katherine Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling, ideas. Couples who marry for ambiguous reasons, lovers who persistently misunderstand one another, women who cling to unrealized dreams and unrecognized prejudices -- Mansfield captures the telling moments of her character's lives in precise, luminous detail. The fifteen stories in this collection range from "At the Bay", an impressionistic evocation of family life set in her native New Zealand, to "Miss Brill", the story of a lonely woman devastated by the mockery of pair of young lovers. The title story, an ironic vignette about a society woman briefly touched by the real world at the funeral of her working-class neighbor, is an experiment with voices, viewpoints, and allusions that continues to surprise and delight readers even today.

A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone edition This dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Katherine Mansfield, hailed as "one of the great modernist writers. Virginia Woolf said of Mansfield, hers was "the only writing I have ever been jealous of." A modernist master of cool precision and extraordinary delicacy, Mansfield wrote about family life with a sharp radicalism, and At the Bay is one of her greatest works. Told in thirteen parts, beginning early in the morning and ending at dusk, At the Bay captures both the Burnell family's intricate web of relatives and friends, and the dreamy, unassuming natural beauty of Crescent Bay. Haunting but ever understated, At the Bay is as timeless novella, and a testament to Mansfield's remarkable powers.

Katherine Mansfield's life was short but her poetry and story deep. All those who saw her say she was beautiful woman. She seems very slender, with a round face, large deep eyes. Like a child - like her stories. All her life (and in her work) she had divided everything into "the loveliness of the world" and "the corruption of the world". Her duty as a writer was to help drive away the evil and make the beauty known. This book present the story and poetry of Katherine Mansfield. Sea Song I will think no more of the sea Of the big green waves And the hollowed shore, Of the brown rock caves No more, no more Of the swell and the weed And the bubbling foam. Memory dwells in my far away home, She has nothing to do with me. She is old and bent With a pack on her back. Her tears all spent, Her voice, just a crack. With an old thorn stick She hobbles along, And a crazy song Now slow, now quick, Wheeks in her throat. And every day While there's light on the shore She searches for something; Her withered claw Tumbles the seaweed; She pokes in each shell Groping and mumbling Until the night Deepens and darkens, And covers her quite, And bids her be silent, And bids her be still. The ghostly feet Of the whispery waves Tiptoe beside her. They follow, follow To the rocky caves In the white beach hollow...

This first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield’s poetry This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield’s development as a poet and her experiments with different forms as well as trace the themes such as love and death, the natural world and the seasons, childhood and friendship, music and song which preoccupied her throughout her writing life. The comprehensive annotations provide illuminating biographical information as well as explaining the rich contexts of the European poetic tradition, including fin de siècle decadence, within which her artistry is steeped. The inclusion of a collection of newly-discovered poems, dating from 1909-10, highlights Mansfield’s desire to be taken seriously as a poet from her earliest beginnings as a writer. The poems as a whole point to a poet who varied her craft as she perfected it, often witty and ironic yet always enchanted by the sound of words.

Four classic short stories, offering a perfect introduction to some of Britain's most famous writers. This box includes: Katherine Mansfield - Bliss Charles Dickens - Horatio SparkinsD. H. Lawrence - Sun Virginia Woolf - Lappin and Lapinova The concept of Novellix is simple; small books, big stories, all contained within beautiful, accessible packages; ideal for reading on the go.

“But in her bosom there was still that bright glowing place - that shower of little sparks coming from it. It was almost unbearable. She hardly dared to breathe for fear of fanning it higher, and yet she breathed deeply, deeply. She hardly dared to look into the cold mirror - but she did look, and it gave her back a woman, radiant, with smiling, trembling lips, with big, dark eyes and an air of listening, waiting for something…divine to happen…that she knew must happen infallibly.” The New Zealand born writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is considered one of the most influential authors of the early 1900s. However, Mansfield’s work is often overlooked in the canon of British modernism and her short stories are only now beginning to get the recognition they deserve. During her short life Mansfield wrote five collections of short stories including In a German Pension (1911) and The Garden Party & Other Stories (1922). Bliss was first published in 1918 in The English Review and was also included in the short story collection Bliss & Other Stories which was published two years later.

The title collects fourteen short stories written by famous English writers, including David Herbert Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, George Robert Gissing and Thomas Hardy among them, they are highly worth reading.

Introduction by Colm T ib nIn fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, examines a range of themes integral to the human experience, from marriage, family, and death to duty, disillusionment, and regret in this commanding collection, part of the Ecco Art of the Story series. Written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life in the chaotic years after World War I, the fifteen stories in The Garden Party are as fresh, perceptive, and vivid today as they were nearly a century ago. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand while others take place in England or on the French Riviera. In each, Mansfield explores the small yet transformative epiphanies in every day life and illuminates the unspoken, often misunderstood emotions common to us all. In the wry "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," two sisters discover that freedom from their father isn't quite what they expected it to be. A lonely and na ve older woman's contrived sense of self is painfully challenged in "Miss Brill." "At the Bay" considers the plight of a happily married young woman who struggles to find equality with her husband. The Garden Party is an enduring work of literary craftsmanship from a marvelous modern artist.