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 Short Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Newest Review: ... is one of my favorite stories in this particular collection. Again, these two ladies could, at first, be stereotyped figures. ... more  ... They are 'typical' Spinsters, who lived with, and at the beck and call of, their fierce father. We see them in their nightclothes, lost, formal, like small children who've been caught eating the cooking chocolate, but with no-one there to admonish them after his death. There's something unbearably sad about this story, but something funny, too. Almost all Mansfield's writing is witty. This isn't 'belly laugh' humour, rather little twists of words, or moments when the utter ri...more |
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield(Penguin Classics)
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Short Stories - Katherine Mansfield: People, Places, Feelings, and Objects (1751 words)
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Katherine Mansfield. I've been wanting to write this for ages. She is, you see, one of my very favorite authors, and one of the few authors who I've continued to like, and read, as I've grown up. I think it's only the really good writers whose books you continue to find new things in each time you read them, and who remain relevant through the years. I think it's probably because Mansfield writes about people, characters in situations, rather than concentrating on plot. She died in 1923, and her stories are set firmly in that era, but people haven't changed that much, and this is what she excells at. Reading her stories is rather like ... Read the complete review
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