Katherine Mansfield

This recording contains four of Katherine Mansfield's best stories....

What does it mean to escape when love, obligation, and habit quietly close in? In “The Escape” by Katherine Mansfield, a quiet domestic moment becomes the stage for an unspoken emotional reckoning between a husband and wife.

What if a single day could strip away every comforting illusion? In “Revelations” by Katherine Mansfield, a woman’s carefully constructed sense of self is quietly undone as she moves through a series of encounters that force her to confront truths she would rather avoid.

In the realm of the short story, Katherine Mansfield established a highly original style. Undramatic, poetic and lyrical, her writing is exquisitely subtle in its treatment of human behaviour....

Eight brilliant short stories from the best female short story writer of her age....

Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories. This recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of incomplete stories collated after Mansfield’s death.

An exploration of the New Zealand writer's life told through her journals, letters and stories....

Katherine Mansfield is remembered as one of the great modernist short-story writers, who managed to pack a huge amount of creative work into her 34 years before she died of TB in 1923....

A glittering collection of classic short stories....

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these 15 stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life....

A wonderful collection of great classic love stories for the incurable romantic in all of us.....

The 15 stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her own short lifetime, was compared to Chekhov. The tales are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations....

One of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories, "Bliss" introduces us to Bertha, who experiences a sense of rapture as she reflects on her life....

Miss Brill is a short story by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). It was first published in Athenaeum on 26 November 1920, and later reprinted in The ...

"The Lady's Maid" is a story by Katherine Mansfield: Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door... I hope I haven't disturbed you, madam. You weren't asleep...

The short story is considered to be one of the most challenging genres because of the need for compact plotlines and the ability to conjure up atmosphere and character in a few sentences....

In 'The Wrong House', an elderly lady is traumatised when a funeral cortege turns up unexpectedly at her door....

This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in the short story genre.

Fifty short stories by women writers who broke the mould....

A young English woman travels alone for the first time, eager to begin a new position abroad and convinced of her independence. Armed with good intentions and polite trust, she navigates foreign streets, unfamiliar customs, and her own expectations of kindness and respect.