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The Short Stories Of Katherine Mansfield

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The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield.She was born on 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand the middle child of five.A gifted Cello, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally the young Katherine's first writings were published in school magazines At 19 Katherine left for Great Britain and met the modernist writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. She travelled to Europe before returning to New Zealand in 1906 she began to write the short stories that she would later become famous for. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. By 1908 she had returned to London and to a rather more bohemian lifestyle. A passionate affair resulted in her becoming pregnant but married off instead to an older man who she left the same evening with the marriage unconsummated. She was then to miscarry and be cut out of her mothers will (allegedly because of her lesbianism).In 1911 she was to start a relationship with John Middleton Murry a magazine editor and although it was volatile it enabled her to write some of here best stories.During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the tender age of 34 on January 9th 1923 in Fontainebleau, FranceMany of these stories are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Word Of Mouth. Many samples are at our youtube channel http: //www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. They are read for you by Richard MitchleyIndex Of StoriesA Dill PickleThe Garden PartyThe Life Of Ma ParkerMarriage A La ModeMr & Mrs DoveStrangerAn Ideal FamilyThe Singing Lesson
Release date Australia
December 20th, 2012
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
52
Dimensions
152x229x3
ISBN-13
9781780005928
Product ID
23992456

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