Katherine Mansfield: The Collected Stories

Katherine 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.