Bliss Katherine Mansfield Author

by Katherine Mansfield

2021-04-11 10:49:36

'Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh ... Read more
'Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at - nothing - at nothing, simply.'Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. In these three tales, aglow with light and colour, Mansfield describes an exultant epiphany, fading memories and the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday existence.This book includes Bliss, The Daughters of the Late Colonel and The Doll's House. Less

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Print pages80
PublisherPenguin UK
Publication date February 15, 2011
ISBN9780141970035
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 Oct 1888 – 9 Jan 1923) was a prominent modernist writer who was born and brought up in New Zealand. She wrote short stories and poetry under the pen name Katherine Mansf...

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