WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear,sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre,and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving,resonant,full of light and colour,they range from short sharp studies to longer,richer tales,encompassing her three major volumes Bliss,The Garden Party and In a German Pension,and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death,including'Honesty',an intriguing tale of two bachelors,and'The Doves'Nest',an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful,delicate and quietly devastating,they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive,often painful revelations of her characters'inner lives.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141441818Number of pages: 816Weight: 560 gDimensions: 198 x 132 x 42 mm
Katherine Mansfield
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Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
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