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The short stories of Katherine Mansfield.

By: Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1937.Description: xi 688 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1420934198
  • 9781420934199
  • 0394445325
  • 9780394445328
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ3.M32355
Other classification:
  • HQ 3638
Contents:
The tiredness of Rosabel -- How Pearl Button was kidnapped -- The journey to Bruges -- A truthful adventure -- New dresses -- Germans at meat -- The baron -- The sister of the baroness -- Frau Fischer -- Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding -- The modern soul -- At Lehmann's -- The luft bad -- A birthday -- The child-who-was-tired -- The advanced lady -- The swing of the pendulum -- A blaze -- The woman at the store -- Ole Underwood -- The little girl -- Millie -- Pension Séguin -- Violet -- Bains turcs -- Something childish but very natural -- An indiscreet journey -- Spring pictures -- The little governess -- The wind blows -- Prelude -- At the bay -- Late at night -- Two tuppenny ones, please -- The black cap -- A suburban fairy tale -- Psychology -- Carnation -- Feuille d'album -- A dill pickle -- Bliss -- Je ne parle pas français -- Sun and moon -- Mr. Reginald Peacock's day -- Pictures -- See-saw -- This flower -- The wrong house -- The man without a temperament -- Revelations -- The escape -- Bank holiday -- The young girl -- The stranger -- The lady's maid -- The daughters of the late colonel -- Life of Ma Parker -- The singing lesson -- Mr. and Mrs. Dove -- An ideal family -- Her first ball -- Sixpence -- The voyage -- The garden-party -- Miss Brill -- Marriage à la mode -- Poison -- The doll's house -- Honeymoon -- A cup of tea -- Taking the veil -- The fly -- The canary.
Unfinished stories. A married man's story -- The doves' nest -- Six years after -- Daphne -- Father and the girls -- All serene -- A bad idea -- A man and his dog -- Such a sweet old lady -- Honesty -- Susannah -- Second violin -- Mr. and Mrs. Williams -- Weak heart -- Widowed.
Summary: Eighty-eight modernist short stories from the New Zeland author, Kathleen Mansfield Murry, published under her pen name. She was recognized as innovative, accessible, and psychologically acute, oen of the pioneers of the avant-garde in the creation of the short story. Her language was clear and precise; her emotion and reaction to experience carefully distilled and resonant. Her use of image and symbol were sharp, suggestive, and new without seeming forced or written to some preconceived formula.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PZ 3 .M3255 Sh (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 133170

Published Sept., 1937, reprinted: Nov. 1937, 1941 and 1945.

The tiredness of Rosabel -- How Pearl Button was kidnapped -- The journey to Bruges -- A truthful adventure -- New dresses -- Germans at meat -- The baron -- The sister of the baroness -- Frau Fischer -- Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding -- The modern soul -- At Lehmann's -- The luft bad -- A birthday -- The child-who-was-tired -- The advanced lady -- The swing of the pendulum -- A blaze -- The woman at the store -- Ole Underwood -- The little girl -- Millie -- Pension Séguin -- Violet -- Bains turcs -- Something childish but very natural -- An indiscreet journey -- Spring pictures -- The little governess -- The wind blows -- Prelude -- At the bay -- Late at night -- Two tuppenny ones, please -- The black cap -- A suburban fairy tale -- Psychology -- Carnation -- Feuille d'album -- A dill pickle -- Bliss -- Je ne parle pas français -- Sun and moon -- Mr. Reginald Peacock's day -- Pictures -- See-saw -- This flower -- The wrong house -- The man without a temperament -- Revelations -- The escape -- Bank holiday -- The young girl -- The stranger -- The lady's maid -- The daughters of the late colonel -- Life of Ma Parker -- The singing lesson -- Mr. and Mrs. Dove -- An ideal family -- Her first ball -- Sixpence -- The voyage -- The garden-party -- Miss Brill -- Marriage à la mode -- Poison -- The doll's house -- Honeymoon -- A cup of tea -- Taking the veil -- The fly -- The canary.

Unfinished stories. A married man's story -- The doves' nest -- Six years after -- Daphne -- Father and the girls -- All serene -- A bad idea -- A man and his dog -- Such a sweet old lady -- Honesty -- Susannah -- Second violin -- Mr. and Mrs. Williams -- Weak heart -- Widowed.

Bagnall, M925

Eighty-eight modernist short stories from the New Zeland author, Kathleen Mansfield Murry, published under her pen name. She was recognized as innovative, accessible, and psychologically acute, oen of the pioneers of the avant-garde in the creation of the short story. Her language was clear and precise; her emotion and reaction to experience carefully distilled and resonant. Her use of image and symbol were sharp, suggestive, and new without seeming forced or written to some preconceived formula.

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