The Garden Party and Other Stories

<p>Katherine Mansfield is often recognized as one of the true innovators of the modern short story. The New Zealand-born Englishwoman embraced a Bohemian lifestyle and became involved in a series of scandalous relationships which greatly influenced some of her most significant work. Her best-known writings were produced in her final years as she was plagued by illness. Her fiction is dominated by themes of male-female relationships sexual ambivalence and gender roles. Most of her work focuses on female protagonists and demonstrates the problems of social relationships. This collection written between 1920-1922 includes “At the Bay” a story that proposes there is more to a woman's life than marriage and motherhood; “The Garden Party” which explores class differences; “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” a story about life and death; “Marriage à la Mode” about the dissolution of a relationship; “Miss Brill” Mansfield's memorable tale of the lonely woman and many more. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.</p>