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Garden Party


Garden Party



von: Katherine Mansfield

22,97 €

Verlag: Harper Collins
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 09.08.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9780062490506
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 304

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A classic short story collection from a twentieth-century classic British modernist and the only writer Virginia Woolf claimed to be jealous of.In fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, examines a range of themes integral to the human experience, from marriage, family, and death to duty, disillusionment, and regret in this commanding collection, part of the Ecco Art of the Story series. Written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life in the chaotic years after World War I, the fifteen stories in The Garden Party are as fresh, perceptive, and vivid today as they were nearly a century ago. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand while others take place in England or on the French Riviera. In each, Mansfield explores the small yet transformative epiphanies in every day life and illuminates the unspoken, often misunderstood emotions common to us all. In the wry &quote;The Daughters of the Late Colonel,&quote; two sisters discover that freedom from their father isn't quite what they expected it to be. A lonely and naive older woman's contrived sense of self is painfully challenged in &quote;Miss Brill.&quote; &quote;At the Bay&quote; considers the plight of a happily married young woman who struggles to find equality with her husband. The Garden Party is an enduring work of literary craftsmanship from a marvelous modern artist.&quote;I was jealous of her writing--the only writing I have ever been jealous of.&quote; -Virginia Woolf

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