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The Garden Party and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

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The Garden Party and Other Stories | Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield was a prominent Modernist writer of short fiction, and one of New Zealand’s best-known authors. “At the Bay” is a story from her collection The Garden Party on a variety of subjects.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .That's a more intolerable situation than the other. For if I'd been—pushed in, against my will—kicking, even—once the door was locked, or at any rate in five years or so, I might have accepted the fact and begun to take an interest in the flight of flies or counting the warder's steps along the passage with particular attention to variations of tread and so on. But as it is, I'm like an insect that's flown into a room of its own accord. I dash against the walls, dash against the windows, flop against the ceiling, do everything on God's earth, in fact, except fly out again. And all the while I'm thinking, like that moth, or that butterfly, or whatever it is, 'The shortness of life! The shortness of life!' I've only one night or one day, and there's this vast dangerous garden, waiting out there, undiscovered, unexplored."

"But, if you feel like that, why—" began Linda quickly.

"Ah!" cried Jonathan. And that "ah!" was somehow alm. . . Read More

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4.00
- Violet - Oct 08, 2016

Piazza del Duomo is my least favourite place in Florence. I always hurry through it. Probably San Marco (except at four in the morning) and St Peters are my least favourite places in, respectively, Venice and Rome so I guess I just don’t respond very well to the grandiose. I prefer what’s smaller, m

5.00
- Vit - Mar 23, 2024

The book is a collection of fine expressionistic short stories…
At the Bay… A summer day spent by the sea… Adults and children… Talks, games and thoughts…
It was all very well to say it was the common lot of women to bear children. It wasn’t true. She, for one, could prove that wrong. She was broken,

5.00
- Georgia - Jul 12, 2023

If there was just one sentence I could save from a fire, it would be this one from The Garden Party:

"And the perfect afternoon slowly ripened, slowly faded, slowly its petals closed."

Here is life in all its order. Rhythmic in sound and symbol, hushed as a prayer. Read it again out loud. Though "lo

4.00
- Paul - Aug 23, 2013

I read that D H Lawrence once wrote to Katherine Mansfield

You are a loathsome reptile - I hope you will die.

(Thank you, Lynne). Ah, the people I have often wished to say the same thing to! (Not you, of course, never you!) But I am not made of such stern stuff as DH. Anyhow, I did not think Miss Ma

3.00
- Magrat - Jun 27, 2021

3,5/5
Relatos que encierran la tragedia dentro de lo cotidiano.
Me ha gustado mucho la voz de Mansfield, una mezcla de Virginia Woolf y Chéjov... Desde luego el relato que más más me ha gustado ha sido 'Fiesta en el jardín', pero también me encantaron 'Las hijas del difunto coronel' y 'Vida de Ma Pa

4.00
- kohey - Nov 20, 2015

It is always a joyful occasion for me to meet an author whose words and phrases I cherish and reflect on in my mind.
I’m truly amazed at her imagination to capture every little moments in life,and to turn the unimaginable into the tangible through her sensitive and sometimes curious eyes.Fifteen sho

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