PENGUIN CLASSICS : THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES PB B FORMAT – KATHERINE MANSFIELD-LORNA SAGE

Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world d greatest writers of the short story Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield s tragically short life. Many are set in the author s native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience – from the blackly comic The Daughters of the Late Colonel , and the short, sharp sketch Miss Brill , in which a lonely woman s precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in At the Bay . All that I write, Mansfield said, all that I am – is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.