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Book SynopsisThe resurgence of interest in Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) has grown to the extent that she is now perceived as 'the most emblematic woman writer of her time'. This Edinburgh edition of her stories, published to coincide with the ninetieth anniversary of her death in 1923, is a complete collection of the author's fiction writing.
Table of ContentsFiction 1898-1915; 1898; Enna Blake; 1899; A Happy Christmas Eve; 1901; The Great Examination; 1903; The Pine Tree, The Sparrows, and You and I; Misunderstood; She; A True Tale; 'It was a big bare house'; 'I am afraid I must be very old-fashioned'; Two Ideas with One Moral; 1904; Die Einsame (The Lonely One); Your Birthday; One Day; 1905; About Pat; 1906; My Potplants; Les Deux Etrangeres; Juliet; 'I was never happy', Huia said; Memories; The Tale of the Three; 1907; L'Incendie; Vignette: Summer in Winte; Summer Idyll; Night Came Swiftly; She and the Boy; or the Story of the Funny-Old-Thing; 'She unpacked her box'; Vignettes; Vignette: Through the Autumn Afternoon; Silhouettes; In a Cafe; In the Botanical Gardens; Leves Amores; The Story of Pearl Button; Vignette: Sunset Tuesday; 'On waking next morning'; An Attempt; Vignette: Westminster Cathedral 'She; sat on the broad window-sill'; The Man, the Monkey and the Mask; 1908; The Education of Audrey; Juliette Delacour; The Unexpected Must Happen; Vignette: By the Sea; In Summer; The Yellow Chrysanthemum; The Thoughtful Child; Her Literary Aspirations; Vignette: They are a ridiculous company; The Thoughtful Child; Rewa; The Tiredness of Rosabel; Study: The Death of a Rose; Youth and Age; Vignette: I look out through the window; Almost a Tragedy: The Cars on Lambton Quay; 1909; A God, One Day on Mount Olympus; 'He met her again on the Pier at Eastbourne'; Prose; His Sister's Keeper; 1910; The Child-Who-Was-Tired; Germans at Meat; Mary; The Baron; The Luft Bad; At 'Lehmann's'; Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding; The Sister of the Baroness; Frau Fischer; A Fairy; Story; 1911; A Birthday; The Modern Soul; The Festival of the Coronation; The Journey to; Bruges; Being a Truthful Adventure; The Advanced Lady; The Swing of the Pendulum; A Blaze; The Green Tree: A Fairy Story; 1912; A Marriage of Passion; At the Club; The Woman at the Store; Green Goggles; Tales of a Courtyard; How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped; Spring in a Dream; New Dresses; The Little Girl; The House; Old Cockatoo Curl; 1913; Ole Underwood; Epilogue I: Pension Seguin; Millie; Epilogue II; Bains Turcs; Old Tar; Maata; Young Country; Rose Eagle; 1914; Something Childish But Very Natural; KT and her sister; Hydrangeas; 'There is always something wonderfully; touching'; 1915; Brave Love; The Little Governess; The Beautiful Miss Richardson; Spring Pictures; Rough Sketch; An Indiscreet Journey; Autumns: I; Autumns: II; Stay-laces; The Dark Hollow; The Aloe; Appendix A: Plan of Maata;.
