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| Original Title: | Selected Stories |
| ISBN: | 0192839861 (ISBN13: 9780192839862) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Katherine Mansfield
Paperback | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.95 | 1000 Users | 78 Reviews
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| Title | : | Selected Stories |
| Author | : | Katherine Mansfield |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oxford World’s Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | February 21st 2002 by Oxford University Press (first published 1948) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics |
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'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the English language.
This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism.
This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and prints them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers.
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Ratings: 3.95 From 1000 Users | 78 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books Selected Stories
I think I was expecting a focus on the well-heeled middle classes (a la Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen) and while that is pretty much the environment for most of these stories, there is a surprising focus on the outcast and the marginalised, which tends to show polite society in a poor light. Excellent.I adore these short stories. They are just simply stunning.
Kathrine Mansfield is a true master of un resolved epiphany...Her characters never find out what can be done to make thing right. Like Tchekouf, she shows the gun in first chapter and for sure will shoot the barrel in the end.She is a pioneer in feminist writing. Short stories such as Miss Brill, The Fly, Je ne parle pa francies, doll house, Bliss are among the best short stories of the world.
Mansfield was revered to the point of envy as a writer by Virginia Woolf. Her stories are written in a distinctive style, somehow spare and yet lush, usually accessible and emotionally charged, with extraordinary characters, often so well realised that they take up residence in the reader's consciousness. I read this as I began my solitary travels in Brazil, and Kezia followed me everywhere through those months; her longing for her grandmother's unconditional love and the security of her
A modernist writer who doesnt shy away from purely character-driven stories. Her technique of free indirect discourse (in many of the stories) takes some getting used to, but then its sweet sailing. The stories seem almost frivolous on the surface, but dig a little deeper and this is very far from the truth. They are as complex and thought-provoking as all good literature ought to be.
I must confess that there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing. However hard I work and tire myself I have only to stop to know it is there, waiting. I often wonder if everybody feels the same. One can never know. But isn't it extraordinary that under his sweet, joyful little singing it
I liked a few stories but mostly found it hard to switch between the different characters in each story and what was happening. Probably would have liked it more if I'd read it more slowly, a story a day rather than several in each sitting.
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