Stories Mansfield V36

by Katherine Mansfield

Book Overview

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as " Prelude, " " At the Bay" " Bliss, " " The Man Without a Temperament" and " The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394700368
• ISBN13: 9780394700366
• Release Date: September 1956
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.