Katherine Mansfield

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....

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

Katherine Mansfield's heartbreaking story of playground bullying. The Kelvey children are excluded from the schoolyard crowd because they come from a poor family with more than a hint of disreputableness about them....

A collection of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories....

The Complete Katherine Mansfield Collection contains the five volumes of short stories written by Mansfield between 1911 and 1924 which established her as one of the best short story writers of her generation, as-well as the only novel she ever penned: The Aloe.

"Her First Ball" is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in The Sphere on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in The...

Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories: The Garden Party and Other Stories Bliss and Other Stories In a German Pension The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories This recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of...

The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry. CONTENTS: Introductory Note - The...

A glittering collection of classic short stories....

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of 18....

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. It is a subject that authors return to again and again....

"Prelude" is a 1918 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published by the Hogarth Press in July 1918, and later reprinted in "Bliss and Other Stories"...

"The Fly", by Katherine Mansfield, deals with the aftermath of the loss of an only beloved son in the wake of World War I....

In a world that has moved on, two men sit in the shadows of the past. One, frail and forgetful, speaks of things best left unsaid. The other, powerful yet unknowingly adrift, listens—and feels something crack beneath his carefully preserved sense of control. The war took their sons, but time...

The fifteen 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. With careful, quiet observation, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships...

Parmi les plus belles lettres de la littérature mondiale, écrites par celle que Virginie Woolf nommait "le seul auteur que j'envie". Au fil...

Two old friends meet for a visit. The remembrances of Woodifield caused the "Boss" to come face-to-face with the death of his son in the war....

The Singing Lesson describes the turmoil of a young schoolmistress holding a singing lesson for years 4, 5 and 6 immediately after she has received a very disturbing letter....

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 ...

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