The groundbreaking New Zealand writer's most beloved short stories, now in a Little Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith A Penguin Classic Hardcover Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story,...
Bliss follows a dinner party given by Bertha Young and her husband Harry. The writing shows Bertha depicted as a happy soul, though quite naive about the world she lives in andthose closest to her. The story opened up a lot of questions, about deceit, about knowing oneself and...
"Miss Brill," the bittersweet story of a fragile woman living an ephemeral life of observation and simple pleasures in Paris, established Mansfield as one of the preeminent writers of the Modernist period. The title story, which involved a similar character facing her husband's...