Fr. 37.10

Stories

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Zusatztext "We to her the prosperity of the 'free' story: she untrammeled it from conventions and! still more! gained for it a prestige till then unthought of. How much ground Katherine Mansfield broke for her successors may not be realized. Her imagination kindled unlikely matter; she was to alter for good and all our idea of what goes to make a story." -- Elizabeth Bowen Informationen zum Autor Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1888. From the time of her marriage to John Middleton Murry in 1918 wuntil her death near Paris in 1923, she spent most of her time in Italy, Switzerland and France. Besides her volumes of short stories (all of which are available in The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield, 1937) her works include Poems (1923),  Journal (1927), Letters (1928, 1951), all collected and published after her death. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis "Prelude" "At the Bay" "Bliss" "The Man Without a Temperament" "The Tiredness of Rosabel" "The Baron" "The Modern Soul" "The Woman and the Store" "Ole Underwood" "The Little Governess" "Psychology" "Je ne Parle pas Français" "Sun and Moon" "This Flower" "Revelations" "The Young Girl" "The Stranger" "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" "Life of Ma Parker" "The Singing Lesson" "The Voyage" "Miss Brill" "Marriage a la Mode" "The Doll's House" "The Dove's Nest" "Six Years After" "The Fly" "The Garden Party"...

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Authors Katherine Mansfield
Publisher Vintage USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 07.05.1991
 
EAN 9780679733744
ISBN 978-0-679-73374-4
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 132 mm x 202 mm x 20 mm
Series Vintage Classics
VINTAGE CLASSICS
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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