Bøger af Katherine Mansfield

Havefesten og andre fortællinger cementerede Katherine Mansfields anseelse som en af de mest indflydelsesrige modernister i sin samtid og regnes i dag for en moderne klassiker.Katherine Mansfield var født og opvokset i New Zealand, men flyttede som ganske ung til Storbritannien, hvor hun blev boende resten af sit liv. Novellesamlingen Havefesten og andre fortællinger udkom i 1922 kort før hendes død og består af 15 noveller, som alle undersøger de uudtalte, halvt fremstammede følelser, der udgør det hverdagslige liv. Mange af fortællingerne udspiller sig i hjemlandet og varierer i tone og længde, fra den lange åbningsnovelle ’Ved bugten’ – en levende, impressionistisk fremkaldelse af familielivet – til den lille komprimerede ’Miss Brill’, hvor en ensom kvindes spinkle selvværd på brutal vis bliver ødelagt, da hun overhører to elskendes fortrolige samtale.Mansfield døde kun 34 år gammel efter længere tids sygdom, men står tilbage som en af modernismens væsentlige stemmer. Pressen skriver:»Mansfields penduleren mellem væren og refleksion er ikke blot en effektfuld litterær strategi; bevægelsen synes at afspejle den menneskelige bevidsthed, og når en forfatter som Virginia Woolf med god grund beundrede Mansfields skrift, tror jeg, det skyldes, at hun som få formår at omdanne denne uhåndgribelige proces til gnistrende, præcise sætninger.«  – Weekendavisen»Katherine Mansfields prosa er vidunderlig […] Læs, læs, læs Katherine Mansfield.« – Information»Det er bragende godt, ganske enkelt.« ***** – Litteraturlinjer.dk»Disse noveller er som musik – man bliver fanget af stemninger og beskrivelser. Forfatterens brug af impressionistiske virkemidler er imponerende.«– lektør Inger Nygaard Kaad

This new selection of Mansfield's stories adds 6 stories to Dan Davin's original selection of 27 and arranges them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive text established by Anthony Alpers.

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen 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.'

She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a magician of the short story, whose work was described by Virginia Woolf as 'the only writing I have ever been jealous of'. These eight tales show her gift for transforming fleeting moments - a chance meeting, a letter received, a careless remark - into small miracles of language and feeling.

An outstanding literary portrayal of the shadow cast by the First World War.

Presentazione della Nuova TraduzioneIn una pensione tedescadi Katherine MansfieldTraduzione a cura di Silvia LicciardelloSiamo orgogliosi di annunciare l'uscita della nuova traduzione italiana della raccolta di racconti In una pensione tedesca, un'opera seminale di Katherine Mansfield, brillantemente tradotta da Silvia Licciardello. Questa edizione offre ai lettori italiani un'opportunità unica di immergersi nelle sfumature e nella sensibilità dell'autrice neozelandese, attraverso un linguaggio che risuona con contemporaneità e fedeltà all'originale.In una pensione tedesca è una raccolta di racconti brevi che esplora con acutezza e ironia le dinamiche delle relazioni umane all'interno di una pensione in Germania. Mansfield, conosciuta per la sua abilità nel catturare le complessità dell'animo umano, dipinge con maestria personaggi e situazioni che, sebbene distanti nel tempo, risuonano con una sorprendente attualità.Silvia Licciardello, nella sua traduzione, ha saputo non solo catturare lo spirito originale del testo di Katherine Mansfield, ma anche trasmettere la ricchezza delle sue descrizioni e la profondità dei suoi dialoghi. La sua traduzione si distingue per l'attenzione ai dettagli e per la capacità di mantenere il carattere distintivo dello stile dell'autrice, unendo eleganza e precisione.La nuova edizione è arricchita da note che offrono ai lettori una migliore comprensione del testo originale.Invitiamo lettori e appassionati di letteratura a scoprire o riscoprire Katherine Mansfield attraverso questa nuova traduzione di Silvia Licciardello, che promette di essere una lettura rivelatrice e immersiva, adatta sia agli amanti della letteratura sia a chi si avvicina per la prima volta all'universo narrativo di Katherine Mansfield.

Our box Summer Stories contains four heartening short stories by some of literature´s most beloved authors. Discover tales of love and joy, festivities and sorrow, interwoven with valuable lessons – all against the backdrop of glistening summer greenery.This box includes four books: Virginia Woolf – Kew GardensJames Joyce – The Boarding HouseEdith Wharton – The QuicksandKatherine Mansfield – The Garden PartyThe concept of Novellix is simple; small books, big stories, all contained within beautiful, accessible packages, perfect for reading on the go.

Instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form, Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Something Childish and Other Stories’ captures the vulnerability of raw emotion in its most charged state.Inviting readers to reflect upon our social experiences, this collection constitutes a deep dive into what it truly means to be human.‘Something Childish and Other Stories’ is the ideal companion for fans of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in ‘The Notebook’.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a short story writer and poet from New Zealand who was regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement.Her life was turned into a TV series in 1973 called ´A Picture of Katherine Mansfield´, and many of her stories have been made into movies and TV shows, such as ´Winners and Losers´ (1975) based on the story ´The Woman at the Store´ and the most recent from 2021 ´Dill Pickle´ starring Caroline Duncan and Jim Thalman.

Instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form, Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Bliss and Other Stories’ captures the accuracy of raw emotion and social experience. Inviting readers to reflect upon our most vulnerable of states, this collection constitutes a deep dive into what it means to be human. Featuring a selection of new poetry and short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paul Morris, as inspired by Mansfield herself.‘Bliss and Other Stories’ is the ideal companion for fans of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams fans of ‘The Notebook’.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a short story writer and poet from New Zealand who was widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Having settled in England at the age of 19, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34. Her life and best-know short stories were adapted into the 1973 TV series 'A Picture of Katherine Mansfield'.

A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing. Prelude -- Je ne parle pas francais -- Bliss -- The wind blows -- Psychology -- Pictures -- The man without a temperament -- Mr. Reginald Peacock's day -- Sun and moon -- Feuille d'album -- A dill pickle --The little governess -- Revelations -- The escape Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father was a banker and she was a cousin of the author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. She had two older sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother, born in 1894. Her father, Harold Beauchamp, became the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was knighted. Her grandfather was Arthur Beauchamp, who briefly represented the Picton electorate in Parliament. In 1893 the Mansfield family moved from Thorndon to Karori, where Mansfield spent the happiest years of her childhood. She used some of her memories of this time as an inspiration for the "Prelude" story...

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry ( 1888 - 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34. In this book: In a German Pension, (1911) The garden party and other stories, (1922) Something Childish and Other Stories, (1924) The Aloe, (1930) Katherine Mansfield's Letters to John Middleton Murry 1913-1922 Bliss, and Other Stories

"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. The title story, which involved a similar character facing her husband's infidelity, also found critical acclaim. -Wikipedia

"In a German Pension" is a collection of thirteen stories mostly portraying the interactions amongst pension residents on a German town.Rich, psychologically probing stories: "Germans at Meat," "The Baron," "The Modern Soul," "The Advanced Lady" and nine others. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

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Not the usual kind of short stories with plot, but rather incidents, characterizations or impressions of life made vivid by the author's clear style and finished writing. 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 -- The Lady's-Maid There was poor little Lottie, left behind again, because she found it so fearfully hard to get over the stile by herself. When she stood on the first step her knees began to wobble; she grasped the post. Then you had to put one leg over. But which leg? She never could decide. And when she did finally put one leg over with a sort of stamp of despair--then the feeling was awful. She was half in the paddock still and half in the tussock grass. She clutched the post desperately and lifted up her voice. "Wait for me!" "No, don't you wait for her, Kezia!" said Isabel. "She's such a little silly. She's always making a fuss. Come on!" And she tugged Kezia's jersey. "You can use my bucket if you come with me," she said kindly. "It's bigger than yours." But Kezia couldn't leave Lottie all by herself. She ran back to her.

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Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, "At the Bay, " a vivid impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch "Mrs. Brill, " in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father was a banker and she was a cousin of the author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. She had two older sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother, born in 1894. Her father, Harold Beauchamp, became the chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was knighted. Her grandfather was Arthur Beauchamp, who briefly represented the Picton electorate in Parliament.In 1893 the Mansfield family moved from Thorndon to Karori, where Mansfield spent the happiest years of her childhood. She used some of her memories of this time as an inspiration for the "Prelude" story.....

The Garden Party By Katherine Mansfield VERY early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the pad- docks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea. A Heavy dew had fallen. The grass was blue. Big drops hung on the bushes and just did not fall; the silvery, fluffy toi-toi was limp on its long stalks, and all the marigolds and the pinks in the bungalow gardens were bowed to the earth with wetness. Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves. It looked as though the sea had beaten up softly in the darkness, as though one immense wave had come rippling, rippling - how far? Perhaps if you had walked up in the middle of the night you might have seen a big fish flicking in at the window and gone again. Ah-Aah! Sounded thesleepy sea. And from the bush there came the sound of little streams flowing, quickly, lightly, slipping between the smooth stones, gushing Into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves, and something else - what was it? - a faint stirring and shaking, the snapping of a twig and then such silence that it seemed someone was listening. Round the corner of Crescent Bay, between the piled-up masses of broken rock, a flock of sheep came pattering. They were huddled together, a small, tossing, woolly mass, and their thin, stick- like legs trotted along quickly as if the cold and the quiet had frightened them. Behind them an old sheep-dog, his soaking paws covered with sand, ran along with his nose to the ground, but carelessly, as if thinking of something else. And then in the rocky gateway the shepherd himself appeared. He was a lean, upright old man, in a frieze coat that was covered with a web of tiny drops, velvet trousers tied under the knee, and a wide-awake with a folded blue handkerchief round the brim. One hand was crammed into his belt, the other grasped a beautifully smooth yellow stick. And as he walked, taking his time, he kept up a very soft light whistling, an airy, far-away fluting that sounded mournful and tender. The old dog cut an ancient caper or two and then drew up sharp, ashamed of his levity, and walked a few dignified paces by his master's side. The sheep ran forward in little pattering rushes; they began to bleat, and ghostly flocks and herds answered them from under the sea. "Baa ! Baaa !" For a time they seemed to be always on the same piece of ground. There ahead was... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.

Mansfield's Bliss, and Other Stories, published in 1920, secured the author's literary reputation. Readers and critics at the time lauded the short fiction collection, with controversial subject matters like infidelities, discussions of sexuality, cruel and superficial characters. "Bliss" is one of Mansfield's most frequently anthologized stories and still resonates with modern readers.

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in 1888 into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father was a banker and she was a cousin of the author Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. She had two older sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother, born in 1894. Her father, Harold

Father would never forgive them. That was what they felt more than ever when, two mornings later, they went into his room to go through his things. They had discussed it quite calmly. It was even down on Josephine's list of things to be done. Go through father's things and settle about them. But that was a very different matter from saying after breakfast.

In deceptively simple language, Katherine Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling, ideas. Couples who marry for ambiguous reasons, lovers who persistently misunderstand one another, women who cling to unrealized dreams and unrecognized prejudices -- Mansfield captures the telling moments of her character's lives in precise, luminous detail. The fifteen stories in this collection range from "At the Bay", an impressionistic evocation of family life set in her native New Zealand, to "Miss Brill", the story of a lonely woman devastated by the mockery of pair of young lovers. The title story, an ironic vignette about a society woman briefly touched by the real world at the funeral of her working-class neighbor, is an experiment with voices, viewpoints, and allusions that continues to surprise and delight readers even today.

The first published collection of short stories from New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield. In a German Pension was originally released in 1911 and features thirteen modern sketches and stories. An initial success, most of the tales were influenced by Mansfield's brief stay at a Germany spa town two years prior.

A well-known New Zealand novelist linked with the modernist movement in literature, Katherine Mansfield, compiled a number of short tales under the title "The Garden Party and Other Stories." There are 15 tales in the book, 15 different subjects are covered, including class, gender, and the human condition. The collection's most well-known stories include "The Garden Party," which centers on a wealthy family planning a garden party while an impoverished family nearby suffers tragedy, "Miss Brill," which explores the inner thoughts of a lonesome woman who frequently visits a public park, and "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," which tells the tale of two sisters who are coping with their father's death and the difficulties in their own lives. These tales, which are regarded as classics of early 20th-century writing, are praised for their psychological depth, vivid imagery, and use of symbolism.