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Something Childish and Other Stories is a 1924 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in America as The Little Girl. This anthology was published after her death by her husband John Middleton Murry. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains the stories written between Bliss: and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party: and Other Stories (1922). The additional stories are the earlier first four stories, plus «Sixpence» (which Mansfield thought sentimental) and «Poison».

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The red and yellow tulips, heavy with flowers, seemed to lean upon the dusk. A grey cat, dragging its belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one, its shadow, trailed after.’Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Cut tragically short at the age of 34, hers was a life of passion that took her from New Zealand to Bohemian London and Paris. These various landscapes are reflected with verve in her writing, and are peopled with astutely and intimately drawn characters: lonely Miss Brill in her ermine, Colonel Pinner’s adrift daughters, mysterious Pearl Fulton.Praised by Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, Mansfield’s inimitable stories are essential reading.

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Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: «The Tiredness of Rosabel», «At Lehmann's», «Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding», «The Swing of the Pendulum», «The Woman at the Store», «How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped», «Ole Underwood», «Millie», «Bains Turcs'», «The Little Governess», «An Indiscreet Journey», «The Wind Blows», «Prelude», «A Dill Pickle», «Je Ne Parle Pas Français», «Bliss», «Psychology», «Pictures», «The Man Without a Temperament», «Revelations», «The Escape», «The Young Girl», «The Stranger», «Miss Brill», «Poison», «The Daughters of the Late Colonel», «Life of Ma Parker», «Her First Ball», «Marriage ý la Mode», «At the Bay», «The Voyage», «The Garden Party», «The Doll's House», «The Fly», and «The Canary».

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is credited alongside James Joyce as the creator of the modern short story. The New Zealand-born Englishwoman embraced a Bohemian lifestyle and became involved in a series of scandalous relationships, which greatly influenced some of her most significant work. Her best-known writings were produced in her final years, as she was plagued by illness. Her fiction is dominated by themes of male-female relationships, sexual ambivalence and gender roles. Most of her work focuses on female protagonists and demonstrates the problems of social relationships. This collection, written between 1920-1922, includes “At the Bay,” a story that proposes there is more to a woman's life than marriage and motherhood; “The Garden Party,” which explores class differences; “The Daughters of the Late Colonel,” a story about life and death; “Marriage à la Mode,” about the dissolution of a relationship; “Miss Brill,” Mansfield's memorable tale of the lonely woman, and several more.

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Katherine Mansfield is often recognized as one of the true innovators of the modern short story. The New Zealand-born Englishwoman embraced a Bohemian lifestyle and became involved in a series of scandalous relationships, which greatly influenced some of her most significant work. Her best-known writings were produced in her final years, as she was plagued by illness. Her fiction is dominated by themes of male-female relationships, sexual ambivalence, and gender roles. Most of her work focuses on female protagonists and demonstrates the problems of social relationships. This collection, written between 1920-1922, includes “At the Bay”, a story that proposes there is more to a woman's life than marriage and motherhood; “The Garden Party”, which explores class differences; “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”, a story about life and death; “Marriage à la Mode”, about the dissolution of a relationship; “Miss Brill”, Mansfield's memorable tale of the lonely woman, and many more. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

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An artist who excelled at the expression of subtle details and concentrated emotion, Katherine Mansfield ranks among the twentieth century's greatest short story writers. Her elegant, ironic tales reflect her own bohemian lifestyle, which involved tempestuous relationships with Bertrand Russell and Virginia Woolf. This collection of a dozen of Mansfield's finest works features compelling tales of fraught relationships and shattering revelations, all recounted in an intensely visual and impressionistic style. These stories range from throughout Mansfield's brief but prolific career. They include «Prelude,» a reminiscence of the author's New Zealand girlhood; «Bliss,» involving a young mother's disillusionment; «Je Ne Parle Pas Français,» concerning a romantic young woman's betrayal; and «The Garden Party,» a contrast of snobbery and social responsibility.

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Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888 – 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. She was the subject of the 1973 BBC miniseries A Picture of Katherine Mansfield starring Vanessa Redgrave. The six-part series included adaptations of Mansfield's life and of her short stories. In 2011, a biopic film titled «Bliss» was made of her early beginnings as a writer in New Zealand.<P> This edition contains 101 classic works by Mansfield – 70 short stories and 31 poems – spanning the length of her career as an author and poet.<P> If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the more than 100 other entries in the series, covering classics, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, adventure stories, science fiction, and much, much more!

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Bienvenidos a la serie de libros de los Maestros de la Prosa, una selección de los mejores trabajos de autores notables.El crítico literario August Nemo selecciona los textos más importantes de cada autor. La selección se hace a partir de las novelas, cuentos, cartas, ensayos y textos biográficos de cada escritor.Esto ofrece al lector una visión general de la vida y la obra del autor.Esta edición está dedicada a Katherine Mansfield, una destacada escritora modernista de origen neozelandés. Al igual que Virginia Wolf, con la que mantuvo una relativa amistad, Mansfield en sus relatos ,quería describir la vida cotidiana y las relaciones sociales en las clases medias cultivadas, a las que ambas pertenecían. Pero sobre todo, quería ver qué había debajo de esa bonanza. Podía ser algo dramático, la muerte, el término del amor o algo impreciso, un secreto… Para ello combinó hermosura y espanto, lo mezquino con lo sublime. Y para ello reflejó la belleza existente en toda vida humana.Este libro contiene los siguientes escritos:Cuentos: Las hijas del difunto coronel; La mosca; Felicidad; Fiesta en el jardín; Vida de Ma Parker; Sopla el viento; La señorita Brill; El Cansancio de Rosabel; Cómo Secuestraron a Pearl Button; Viaje a Brujas; Una Aventura Verídica; Los Vestidos Nuevos; La Abandonada o la Mujer Solitaria; El Viejo Underwood; La Niña; Millie; Pensión Seguín; Violet; Baños Turcos; Algo Infantil, Pero Muy Natural; Un Viaje Indiscreto; Estampas Primaverales; En Las Altas Horas De La Noche; Dos de Dos Peniques, Hage El Favor; La Gorra Nueva; Cuento De Hadas Suburbano; El Clavel; Juegos Infantiles; Esta Flor; La Casa que No Era; Seis Peniques; Veneno.¡Si aprecias la buena literatura, asegúrate de buscar los otros títulos de Tacet Books!

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