7 best short stories by Katherine Mansfield
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- Calcular freteWelcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the New Zealander writer Katherine Mansfield, a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer and poet who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At the age of 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: - The Garden Party - The Daughters of the Late Colonel- Bliss- Prelude - At the bay - Je ne parle pas francais - How Pearl Button was KidnappedIf you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
Katherine Mansfield was born on October 14, 1888, in Wellington, New Zealand. After moving to England at age 19, Mansfield secured her reputation as a writer with the story collection Bliss (1920). She reached the height of her powers with her 1922 collection The Garden Party. Her last five years were shadowed by tuberculosis; she died from the disease on January 9, 1923, at the age of 34.
