Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jan 28, 2024

In Category - Literary Fiction

Authors: Katherine Mansfield In Year : 1922

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

At the Bay — parts 1 to 6
At the Bay — parts 7 to 12
The Garden-Party
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Mr. and Mrs. Dove
The Young Girl
Life of Ma Parker
Marriage à la Mode
The Voyage
Miss Brill
Her First Ball
The Singing Lesson
The Stranger
Bank Holiday
An Ideal Family
The Lady’s Maid

The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly living with one foot firmly planted in this life, even if her other is already reaching tentatively across a gloomy chasm to the next. Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. (Summary by Peter Dann)