Katherine Mansfield, jedna z najwybitniejszych pisarek XX wieku urodziła się w Nowej Zelandii w 1888 roku jako Kathleen Beauchamp. Planowała karierę wiolonczelistki. W 1903 wyjechała do szkoły do Londynu, dokąd powróciła w 1907 po krótkim pobycie w domu, by resztę życia spędzić w Europie, między Anglią a uzdrowiskami, zwłaszcza na południu Francji, gdzie usiłowała ratować nadszarpnięte przez gruźlicę zdrowie. Zmarła we Francji w 1923 roku, pozostawiwszy po sobie pięć tomów mi...
When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary modernism, ‘The Garden Party’ is now considered one of t...
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stori...
