Katherine Mansfield, Collection novels - Softcover

Mansfield, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500397954 ISBN 13: 9781500397951

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

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 friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34. In this book: In a German Pension, (1911) The garden party and other stories, (1922) Something Childish and Other Stories, (1924) The Aloe, (1930) Katherine Mansfield’s Letters to John Middleton Murry 1913—1922 Bliss, and Other Stories

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Katherine Mansfield was a popular New Zealand short-story writer best known for the stories "The Woman at the Shore," "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped," "The Doll s House," and her twelve-part short story "Prelude," which was inspired by her happy childhood. Although Mansfield initially had her sights set on becoming a professional cellist, her role as editor of the Queen s College newspaper prompted a change to writing. Mansfield s style of writing revolutionized the form of the short story at the time, in that it depicted ordinary life and left the endings open to interpretation, while also raising uncomfortable questions about society and identity. Mansfield died in 1923 after struggling for many years with tuberculosis.

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500397954
• ISBN 13: 9781500397951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304