Katherine Mansfield Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Aloe (1930)

Collections

  1. In a German Pension (1911)
  2. Bliss (1922)
  3. The Garden Party (1922)
  4. The Dove’s Nest (1923)
  5. The Little Girl and Other Stories (1924)
  6. Something Childish (1924)
  7. Stories By Katherine Mansfield (1930)
  8. The Doll’s House (1951)
  9. Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield (1976)
  10. The Best Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield (2010)
  11. Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories (2010)
  12. The Garden Party and Selected Short Stories (2018)
  13. Strange Bliss (2021)
  14. Prelude & Other Stories (2021)

Novellas

  1. A Suburban Fairy Tale (1917)
  2. Poison (1920)
  3. At the Bay (1922)

Non fiction

  1. Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
  2. Novels and Novelists (1930)
  3. Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1888-1917 (1984)
  4. The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1918-1919 (1987)
  5. The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1919-1920 (1993)
  6. The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996)

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Katherine Mansfield Books Overview

In a German Pension

In a German Pension is a remarkable collection of short stories, displaying all Katherine Mansfield’s skill in the genre. Foreword by Linda Grant. Written shortly after the author visited Germany as a young woman, these short stories form a series of satirical sketches of German characters. From a young wife s preoccupation with her husband s stomach, to a society lady s inability to see beyond the latest fashion, Katherine Mansfield depicts, in exquisite detail, the minute changes of human behavior. In a German Pension reveals her as a true disciple of Chekhov. A key figure in the Modernist movement, Katherine Mansfield 1888 1923 is most remarkable for perfecting the art of the short story.

Bliss

Kathleen Mansfield Murry 1888 1923 was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. She took on the pen name Katherine Mansfield upon the publication of her first collection of short stories, In a German Pension, in 1911. She also contracted gonorrhoea around this time, an event that was to plague her with arthritic pain for the rest of her short life, as well as to make her view herself as a ‘soiled’ woman. Her life and work were changed forever with the death of her brother, a soldier, during World War I. She was shocked and traumatised by the experience, so much so that her work began to take refuge in the nostalgic reminiscences of their childhood in New Zealand. Miss Brill, the bittersweet story of a fragile woman living an ephemeral life of observation and simple pleasures in Paris, established Mansfield as one of the preeminent writers of the Modernist period, upon its publication in 1920’s. She followed with the equally praised collection, The Garden Party, published in 1922.

The Garden Party

1922. Mansfield is New Zealand’s most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield’s creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Her family memoirs, collected in Bliss, secured her reputation as a writer. Contents: At the Bay; The Garden Party; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; Mr. and Mrs. Dove; The Young Girl; Life of Ma Parker; Marriage a la Mode; The Voyage; Miss Brill; Her First Ball; The Singing Lesson; The Stranger; Bank Holiday; An Ideal Family; and The Lady’s Maid. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Dove’s Nest

1923. Mansfield is New Zealand’s most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield’s creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Mansfield’s family memoirs were collected in Bliss and secured her reputation as a writer. Contents: The Doll’s House; A Cup of Tea; Taking the Veil; The Fly; The Canary; A Married Man’s Story; The Doves’ Nest; Six Years After; Daphne; Father and the Girls; All Serene!; A Bad Idea; A Man and His Dog; Such a Sweet Old Lady; Honesty; Susannah; Second Violin; Mr. and Mrs. Williams; Weak Heart; and Widowed. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Doll’s House

Set in England and New Zealand, these four short stories are funny, sad and often cruel. ‘Penguin Readers’ is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series’ combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre 20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. ‘Penguin Readers’ are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from ‘Easystarts’ with a 200 word vocabulary, to Level 6 Advanced with a 3000 word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub categories: ‘Contemporary’, ‘Classics’ or ‘Originals’. At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying ‘Penguin Readers Factsheets’ which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.

The Best Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

These perceptive tales of frayed emotional bonds and shattering discoveries unfold in an intensely visual style of impressionistic details. Acclaimed stories by the influential Modernist author include ‘Prelude,’ a reminiscence of her New Zealand girlhood, in addition to ‘The Garden Party,’ ‘How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped,’ ‘Bliss,’ and others.

Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories

This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty five of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories with explanatory annotations. With the exception of the first four stories, all were written within a period of ten years. These stories, and the letters following, reflect the urgency of a writer who knew her time was limited. All but four of the texts of the stories reprinted here are versions that Mansfield herself revised or selected. Twenty excerpts from Mansfield s correspondence address the craft of writing and her own views on her work, subjects rarely broached in her many letters. ‘Criticism’ includes eighteen essays that collectively suggest the changing emphases in how Mansfield has been read by critics. Contributors include fellow writers Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, and Frank O Connor, as well as biographers Claire Tomalin and Vincent O Sullivan, among others. A Selected Bibliography is also included. .

At the Bay

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Journal of Katherine Mansfield

1927. Katherine Beauchamp was born in New Zealand and at the age of 13 was sent to England to school at Queen’s College. It was here she truly began her writing career. It is difficult to compile a critical evaluation of Katherine Mansfield’s work. Her work seems to be of a finer and purer kind than that of her contemporaries. It is more spontaneous, more vivid, more delicate and more beautiful. Katherine Mansfield responded more completely to life than any other writer and the effect of that more complete response is in her work. This is a collection of her journals with illustrations.

Novels and Novelists

1930. Mansfield is New Zealand’s most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield’s creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle class characters. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Mansfield’s family memoirs were collected in Bliss and secured her reputation as a writer. Novels and Novelists contains a chronological arrangement of Mansfield’s fiction reviews for The Athenaeum, comprising a body of criticism unique in its kind. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1918-1919

Volume II of the five volume Collected Letters begins with Mansfield’s stay at Bandol in the early months of 1918 and follows her until she leaves for the Continent in September 1919. This volume, like the first, demonstrates her brilliance as a correspondent her wit as well as her warmth, her deftness in conveying places and personalities, the vitality of her tastes and enthusiasms and it also reveals the wide swings and dark alternations of her moods. The letters here are dominated by her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and the ways in which she accepted the inevitable advance of her tuberculosis. They are as courageous as they are frank, and shot through with the intelligence and flair that would prompt Virginia Woolf, a few years later, to write that with Mansfield’s death she had lost her greatest rival, and the person whose literary opinion she most valued.

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1919-1920

The third volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the eight months she spent in Italy and the South of France between the English summers of 1919 and 1920. It was a time of intense personal reas*sessment and distress. Mansfield’s relationship with her husband John Middleton Murry was bitterly tested, and most of the letters in this present volume chart that rich and enduring partnership through its severest trial. This was a time, too, when Mansfield came to terms with the closing off of possibilities that her illness entailed. Without flamboyance or fuss, she felt it necessary to discard earlier loyalties and even friendships, as she sought a spiritual standpoint that might turn her illness to less negative ends. For all the grimness of this period of her life, Mansfield’s letters still offer the joie de vivre and wit, self perception and lively frankness that make her correspondence such rewarding reading an invaluable record of a ‘modern’ woman and her time.

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4

The letters in this volume cover the eighteen months Katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. The qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness and sheer fun. Above all, these letters attest to her considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as she approached the final years of her life.

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