Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen’s College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923.
With an introduction and head notes, this volume allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield’s work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years. Admired by Virginia Woolf in her lifetime and by many writers since her death, Katherine Mansfield is one of the great literary artists of the twentieth century.
Short stories include:
Bliss
Prelude
Je ne parle pas français
The Wind Blows
Psychology
Pictures
The Man Without a Temperament
Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day
Sun and Moon
Feuille d’Album
A Dill Pickle
The Little Governess
The Garden Party
At The Bay
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Mr and Mrs Dove
Life of Ma Parker
Marriage à la Mode
The Voyage
Miss Brill
Her First Ball
The Singing Lesson
The Stranger
The Doll’s House
A Cup of Tea
The Fly
The Canary
Something Childish But Very Natural
The Tiredness of Rosabel
How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped
The Woman at the Store
Millie
An Indiscreet Journey
And many more…
