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Laura, une jeune fille de bonne famille, jeune fille très sensible aide à la préparation de la fête qui va avoir lieu dans le jardin...

Although Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand in 1888, she spent much of her short life in England and on the Continent. As she wrote about the privileged worlds she encountered there, her stories quickly attracted literary attention. Prelude was hand-published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press. Readers today still applaud the grace with which Mansfield fuses image, mood and meaning. Here are ten of Katherine Mansfield’s extraordinary tales.

These three stories are amongst the finest by Katherine Mansfield, a woman highly regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. In these bittersweet tales, she gently reveals the emotions and feelings within the lives of apparently unexceptional people. Her stories offer a sensitive insight into human behaviour, achieved not by creating scenes of high drama, but by revealing the motives and thoughts of believable characters.

A vintage collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written

Prélude est une nouvelle extraite du recueil "Félicité" de Katherine Mansfield. Une nouvelle, qui aborde à nouveau l'enfance...

"Pentru un traducator e un privilegiu sa transpuna în alt vesmânt lingvistic povestirile lui Katherine Mansfield, asa cum pentru un cititor e un privilegiu sa le citeasca. Dupa valurile, mai vechi sau mai noi, de realism - socialist, magic, erotic etc. -, existentialism, structuralism, textualism, postmodernism, dupa avalansa de literatura cu iz de kitsch hollywoodian, debordând de violenta si sexualitate, cât de reconfortanta apare adierea de aer proaspat pe care o degaja povestirile lui Katherine Mansfield!

A collection of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories including "Miss Brill", "The Garden Party", "The Singing Lesson", and "Bank Holiday". Listen to this enchanting collection and discover (or remind yourself) why Mansfield is widely regarded as one of the greatest short story writers of the last century.

Katherine Mansfields noveller var ofta självbiografiska. Hennes mest kända novell, "Dockskåpet", handlar om två systrar som till sina klasskamraters stora förtjusning får ett eftertraktat dockskåp. Systrarna inser snart att klasskamraternas avund kan utnyttjas på de mest raffinerade sätt, och en grym lek tar sin början.

A thoroughly engaging collection of classic short stories from some of the greatest writers who lived.

In the realm of narrative literature, the appeal of the short story is that it provides nearly immediate satisfaction. Here is a collection of wonderful classic short stories by such great authors as Saki, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield and Kate Chopin.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. A Dill Pickle is a wistful love story about a couple who meet again six years after their break-up, and for a moment the old passions, positive and negative, resurface in the course of a short intense conversation.

This is a story from the Bliss & Other Stories collection.

A sparkling collection of short stories by leading female authors including “Miss Brill” by Katharine Mansfield, “The Lifted Veil” by George Eliot and “A Venetian Night's Entertainment” by Edith Wharton.

"Warum können wir uns nicht in Träumen treffen und uns alle unsere Fragen beantworten?" Katherine Mansfield hat in ihrem kurzen, bewegten Leben...

A superb collection of vintage classic short stories by some of the world's greatest storytellers. The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad. The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaal by Edgar Allan Poe. The Dead by James Joyce. The Venturers by O. Henry. The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. The Mezzotint by M. R. James. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. Von Kempelen and his Discovery by Edgar Allan Poe. Mesmeric Revelation by Edgar Allan Poe.

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of 18! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

The 15 stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her own short lifetime, was compared to Chekhov. The tales are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. With careful, quiet observation, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling ideas. Her stories often feature young women in the process of maturity, confronting for the first time some of the realities of life.

The Sheridan family is preparing to host a garden party. Laura is supposed to be in charge, but has trouble with the workers who appear to know better, and her mother (Mrs. Sheridan) has ordered lilies to be delivered for the party without Laura's approval. Her sister Jose tests the piano, and then sings a song in case she is asked to do so again later. After the furniture is rearranged, they learn that their neighbour Mr. Scott has died.

A fascinating collection of short stories by great writers that examine aspects of the first world war, from action in the trenches, to the psychological impact of war on individuals and their relationships, to heroic adventure stories, to ghosts and war graves. A wonderful collection!

An engaging collection of short stories from some of the world's greatest racconteurs. Included are 'My Favorite Murder' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The Black Poodle' by F. Anstey; 'The Doll’s House' by Katherine Mansfield; 'The Monkey's Paw' by W. W. Jacobs; 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley; 'A Curious Dream' by Mark Twain; 'Regret' by Kate Chopin; 'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry; 'The Dreamer' by W. W. Jacobs; 'The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield; 'The Inconsiderate Waiter' by J.M. Barrie; and 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe.