Name: The Garden Party and Other Stories (in English)
Price: 8.37 USD
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9780141441801

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Physical Book

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Synopsis "The Garden Party and Other Stories (in English)"

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.'

Katherine Mansfield

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(Nueva Zelanda, 1888 - Francia 1923) Pseudónimo de Kathleen Beauchamp. Narradora neozelandesa que cultivó la novela corta y el cuento breve, convirtiéndose en una de las autoras más representativas del género. En sus obras destacan las pulsiones vitales de los humanos y su choque con las imposiciones sociales, y las descripciones del mundo aristocrático. Se la considera una importante figura del modernismo literario.

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