{"product_id":"the-garden-party-and-other-stories-art-of-the-story-by-katherine-mansfield","title":"The Garden Party: And Other Stories (Art of the Story) by Katherine Mansfield","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by Colm Tóibín\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, examines a range of themes integral to the human experience, from marriage, family, and death to duty, disillusionment, and regret in this commanding collection, part of the Ecco Art of the Story series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life in the chaotic years after World War I, the fifteen stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Garden Party\u003c\/em\u003e are as fresh, perceptive, and vivid today as they were nearly a century ago. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand while others take place in England or on the French Riviera. In each, Mansfield explores the small yet transformative epiphanies in every day life and illuminates the unspoken, often misunderstood emotions common to us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the wry \"The Daughters of the Late Colonel,\" two sisters discover that freedom from their father isn't quite what they expected it to be. A lonely and naïve older woman's contrived sense of self is painfully challenged in \"Miss Brill.\" \"At the Bay\" considers the plight of a happily married young woman who struggles to find equality with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Garden Party\u003c\/em\u003e is an enduring work of literary craftsmanship from a marvelous modern artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mansfield...is one of the progenitors of modernist literature.... Her imaginative worlds and their inhabitants are so inviting.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Mansfield was a pioneering modernist... The collection to start with is \u003cem\u003eThe Garden Party and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1922 when she was at the peak of her powers. Her range and skill here is thrilling... The title story is one of her best known.... And the ending is wonderfully ambivalent, as it is so often in Mansfield's work.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Mansfield \u003c\/b\u003ewas a popular New Zealand short-story writer best known for the stories \"The Woman at the Shore,\" \"How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped,\" \"The Doll's House,\" and her twelve-part short story \"Prelude,\" which was inspired by her happy childhood. Although Mansfield initially had her sights set on becoming a professional cellist, her role as editor of the Queen's College newspaper prompted a change to writing. Mansfield's style of writing revolutionized the form of the short story at the time, in that it depicted ordinary life and left the endings open to interpretation, while also raising uncomfortable questions about society and identity. Mansfield died in 1923 after struggling for many years with tuberculosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEcco Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: August 9, 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9780062490490\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e0.6\" H x 5.2\" L x 7.8\" W\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e304 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epaperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45539038363834,"sku":"9780062490490","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/71-on7_ToGL._SL1360.jpg?v=1769270606","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-garden-party-and-other-stories-art-of-the-story-by-katherine-mansfield","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}