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A carregar... The Garden Party and Other Stories (Everyman Selected)por Katherine Mansfield, Claire Tomalin (Editor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair. This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasise the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay". sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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There were five stories that stood out as favorites:
* Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding (1910) - Frau B. and her husband attend a wedding where a young woman is clearly being married off to a man she does not love. The experience evokes strong emotions in Frau B. concerning the quality of her own marriage.
* The Woman at the Store (1911) - a group riding through a remote region on horseback encounter a lonely woman whose hospitality one of them experienced several years before. There is something mysterious about her circumstances ... revealed at the end.
* Bliss (1918) - A young couple living in London hosts several pretentious friends for a dinner party. Bertha, the woman, is especially happy with the party and her guests, but the end has a particularly interesting twist.
* The Daughters of the Late Colonel (1920) - two young women struggle to hold it together just after their father's death.
* The Garden Party (1921) - A family is preparing for a garden party when they learn that someone in their town has died in an accident. One sensitive family member believes the party should be cancelled, but she is overruled because, after all, the dead man is of a lower class.
Each of these stories is very well-written, but I think I erred in reading them one after the other. My interest began to flag towards the end of the book. Mansfield's collections may be best read with time for contemplation between each story. ( )