Кэтрин Мэнсфилд — книжные серии

This selection of ten short stories about women by modern writers (James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Roald Dahl, James Thurber, Edna O’Brien, Anne Cassidy, Malachi Whitaker and Janet Frame) from different English-speaking countries – England, Ireland, America and New Zealand – explores such themes as love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, myths and nostalgia.
Dictionary work, the role of the narrator, setting, story and plots, speech modes and characterisation are all featured in the analysis sections of each story.

Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre's all-time masters.

Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield's work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Elizabeth Bowen all praised her stories, and her early death at the age of thirty-four cut short one of the finest short-story writers in the English language.

This selection covers the full range of Mansfield's fiction, from her early satirical stories to the subtly nuanced comedy of 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' and the macabre and ominous 'A Married Man's Story'. The stories that pay what Mansfield calls 'a debt of love' to New Zealand are as sharply etched as the European stories, and she recreates her childhood world with mordant insight. Disruption is a constant theme, whether the tone is comic, tragic, nostalgic, or domestic, echoing Mansfield's disrupted life and the fractured expressions of Modernism.

This new edition increases the selection from 27 to 33 stories and prints them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive texts established by Anthony Alpers.

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 eighteen! 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.

Dernier recueil publie du vivant de son auteur, La garden-party commence a l'aube d'une journee radieuse pour s'achever a la nuit noire, dans une chambre ou s'endormira bientot une femme sans age ni visage. Une nouvelle apres l'autre, Katherine Mansfield peint la vie par petites touches, tendres, cocasses, poignantes, parfois cruelles. Elle dit la solitude, la peur et la mort, partout presentes, meme dans la baie des vacances et de l'en-fance. Elle chante aussi le bonheur d'exister, l'intensite et la multiplicite des plaisirs qui s'offrent dans l'instant, ces merveilles que sont le sourire edente d'un bebe, le tourbillon des lumieres d'une…

Katherine Mansfield is one of the most famous short story writers in the English lanuage. These four stories take places about a hundred years ago in England and New Zealand. They are sometimes funny, sometimes sad and often cruel.

Katherine Mansfield is one of the most famous short story writers in the English language. These four stories take place about a hundred years ago in England and New Zealand. They are sometimes funny, sometimes sad and often cruel.

Emotions and relationships delicately but intensely registered, and some of the best descriptive writing in English, characterize the short stories of Katherine Mansfield. The Garden Party, published in 1922, was her last book to appear before her early death, and it made her reputation as one of the handful of unquestioned masters of the short story form.

Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield's short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Born in New Zealand in 1888, she defied the conventions of the times and lived a spirited life, travelling to Bohemian Paris and London, where she died at the early age of 34. These various landscapes are reflected with verve in her writing, and are peopled with astutely and intimately drawn characters: lonely Miss Brill in her ermine, Colonel Pinner's adrift daughters, mysterious Pearl Fulton.

Творчество английской писательницы Кэтрин Мэнсфилд (1888-1923) - яркая страница в прозе XX столетия. Главное наследие писательницы - девяносто три рассказа, созданные за ее недолгую жизнь. На Западе Мэнсфилд считают последовательницей Чехова. Большинство рассказов, вошедших в сборник, русский читатель откроет для себя впервые.