![]() ![]() ![]() Mansfield’s short stories read like impressionist paintings. My favorites were “The Garden Party,” “The Daughters of the Late Colonel,” and “The Singing Lesson.” Some stories fell flat for me, but I thought this was a very well-rounded collection. I am trying to be better at reading short stories, and I saw a blurb about Katherine Mansfield’s short stories on Alice’s blog, so I checked it out and thought I’d be interested too! I enjoyed all of the stories. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Title: The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield ![]()
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