Wild places : selected stories

Title:

Author:

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 author

ISBN:

9781784878146

Additional ISBN:

9781784878146

Personal Author:

Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 author

Publication Information:

London : Vintage Publishing, 2023.

Physical 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.

Subject Term:

Short stories, New Zealand -- 20th century.

Genre:

Short stories.

New Zealand fiction -- 20th century

Language:

English

Abstract:

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 that time wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit. A hundred years on from her death, Mansfield's biographer, Claire Harman, has created this new selection to show us the master of the short story form in full flight ... 'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people' Katherine Mansfield"--Publisher.

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Summary

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive 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 that time wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit. A hundred years on from her death, Mansfield's biographer, Claire Harman, has created this new selection to show us the master of the short story form in full flight.

WITH A FOREWORD BY HELEN SIMPSON AND INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMAN

'There is something rapturous about her work...she has the power to distil the apparently inconsequential into frozen moments laden with significance' Guardian

'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people' Katherine Mansfield

Genre:

Short stories.

New Zealand fiction -- 20th century