{"product_id":"the-garden-party-and-other-stories-warbler-classics-annotated-edition","title":"The Garden Party and Other Stories (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Katherine Mansfield","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1922, \u003cem\u003eThe Garden Party and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is Katherine Mansfield's third and most acclaimed collection of short stories. In addition to the title piece, it includes fourteen other masterful stories, including \"At the Bay\" and \"The Daughters of the Late Colonel.\" Set in post-World War I Europe and New Zealand, Mansfield captures the psychology and inner lives of her characters through free indirect discourse and sudden moments of realization and insight. Many of \u003cem\u003eThe Garden Party\u003c\/em\u003e stories were written between 1920 and 1921 when Mansfield was both at the height of her literary powers and seriously ill with tuberculosis, to which she succumbed in 1923. Includes a review of the 1922 edition by Rebecca West, an essay by Mansfield scholar Joanna Woods, and a detailed biographical timeline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The only writing I have ever been jealous of.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Virginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mansfield is brilliant-she has...a fine, infinitely inquisitive sensibility.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Conrad Aiken\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatherine Mansfield\u003c\/strong\u003e (1888-1923), pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp), was a prominent New Zealand writer, essayist, and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important modernist authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca West\u003c\/strong\u003e (1892-1983) was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. Her major works include the modernist World War I novel The Return of the Soldier (1918), Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), A Train of Powder (1955), The Meaning of Treason (1947), The New Meaning of Treason (1964), and the \"Aubrey trilogy\" of autobiographical novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoanna Woods\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Dublin but has been based in New Zealand for many years. She earned her doctorate on Katherine Mansfield from Moscow State University, subsequently published as Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarbler Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: February 5, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e0.48\" H x 8.5\" L x 5.5\" W\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e208 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epaperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45503215272122,"sku":"9781959891291","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/71vQnODdp5L._SL1360.jpg?v=1768065094","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-garden-party-and-other-stories-warbler-classics-annotated-edition","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}