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Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'… (plus d'informations)
La fébrile organisation d'une fête, la nervosité qui précède une demande en mariage, la langueur d'une journée d'été au bord de la mer, l'effervescence d'un premier bal, un couple qui se retrouve après un long voyage, un autre qui se délite... Des instants de vie dans la bonne société néo-zélandaise qui balancent entre nostalgie, mélancolie, douce tristesse et cruauté larvée. À lire pour la poésie des situations, la subtile psychologie des personnages et la finesse du style. ( )
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This was published as a collection of 15 short stories.
There is an Everyman selection of stories with Claire Tomalin as editor which is not the same book despite using the same title. Please don't combine them.
Please also don't combine this with listings of the specific KM short story with the title The Garden Party.
Please be careful about combining. The Garden Party is the title 1. a short story by KM 2. one of KM's original published collections of short stories including The Garden Party together with other short stories 3. a selection of Katherine Mansfield's stories edited and introduced by Claire Tomalin and in the EVeryman edition
I have separated out an edition of 2, the originally published collection, that had been combined with the short story.
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Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'
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