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The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Dame Peggy Ashcroft
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Summary

 This recording contains four of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. In The Daughters of the Late Colonel, two sisters are recently bereaved; while in Her First Ball a young girl attends her first dance. The Singing Lesson features Miss Meadows, a music teacher in turmoil; and in The Stranger, a middle-aged couple are reunited.©1922 Katherine Mansfield (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Short Stories British Fiction
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Katherine Mansfield’s stories are ones you can listen to many times and still discover something new.

Just delightful

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Loved these twnder stories. Such a profound understanding of the often unspoken nuances of feeling that constrain and liberate relationships.

Consumate writing and reading...

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4 short stories but none that will be memorable. not for characters, not for performance and not for story.

nothing memorable or gripping here

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