Böcker av Katherine Mansfield

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including 'Honesty', an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and 'The Doves' Nest', an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters' inner lives.

Classic/ British English 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.

This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years.

This volume, the second of four, includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and warmth.

This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay".

The letters included in this volume cover the 18 months Mansfield spent in England, France and Switzerland, from May 1920 until the end of 1921. It is the period which saw some of her finest work.

Katherine Mansfield was a formidable critic: astute, witty and something more - she had, as Middleton Murry put it, an extraordinary style and critical verve, mastery and 'sureness of touch'. Careful annotation supplies essential information for following the evolution of her ideas - and her art - from 1907 until her death in 1923.

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…I originalöversättning av Märta LindqvistKatherine Mansfield föddes 1888 på Nya Zeeland men sökte sig till Europa där hon blev vän med bland andra Virginia Woolf och hennes litterära karriär tog fart. Katherine Mansfield kan sägas vara en föregångare till nobelpristagaren Alice Munro.