Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories

Author(s): Katherine Mansfield

Short Stories | NZ Fiction | Fiction

The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woolf claimed that Mansfield's writing was 'The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Widely considered one of the best short-story writers of her period, Katherine Mansfield is celebrated for her sensitive and subtle treatment of human behaviour. Satirical, psychologically deep, unabashed and candid about sex, pregnancy and social issues, her stories adopted a fresh style and new narrative techniques. She drew on and evoked the New Zealand landscape from her childhood, as well as her travels in Europe and time in England.


Product Information

Born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand, she left for the UK at the age of nineteen and become a significant modernist writer, mixing with fellow writers such as Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot and DH Lawrence. She wrote five collections of short stories, the final one being published posthumously by her husband John Middleton Murry, along with a volume of her poems, another of her critical writings and subsequently collections of her letters and journals. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

General Fields

  • : 9781775531869
  • : Random House New Zealand
  • : Vintage New Zealand
  • : 0.632
  • : August 2012
  • : 199mm X 133mm X 51mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : February 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Katherine Mansfield
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.2
  • : 688