Stories

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve — and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people’s relationships — with one another and themselves — change forever. This collection [of 28 stories] includes such masterpieces as “Prelude,” “At the Bay” “Bliss,” “The Man Without a Temperament” and “The Garden Party” and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

Introduction / Jeffrey Meyers —
Tiredness of Rosabell (written 1908; published 1924) —
Baron (1910) —
Modern (1911) —
Woman at the store (1912) —
Ole underwood (1913) —
Little governess (1915) —
Prelude (1918) —
At the bay (1922) —
Psychology (1920) —
Bliss (1918) —
Je ne Parle Pas Francais (1920) —
Sun and moon (1920) —
This flower (1924) —
Man with a temperament (1920) —
Revelations (1920) —
Young girl (1920) —
Stranger (1921) —
Daughters of the late Colonel (1921) —
Life of Ma parker 91921) —
Singing lesson (1921) —
Voyage(1921) —
Garden-party (1922) —
Miss Brill(1920) —
Marriage a la mode (1921) —
Doll’s house (1922) —
Doves’ nest t(1923) —
Six years after (1923) —
Fly (1923).