Name: Wild Places: Selected Stories
Price: 15.22 EUR
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Author: Mansfield, Katherine
ISBN: 9781784878146

Type

Physical Book

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.1 x 14.0 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781784878146

Synopsis "Wild Places: Selected Stories"

A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shift of a heart, the beat of a moment, the changing of the light: in these stories emotional universes are contained within glimpses. Mansfield only lived to the age of 34 but in that time wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit. A hundred years on from her death, Mansfield's biographer, Claire Harman, has created this new selection to show us the master of the short story form in full flight. WITH A FOREWORD BY HELEN SIMPSON AND INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMAN 'There is something rapturous about her work...she has the power to distil the apparently inconsequential into frozen moments laden with significance' Guardian 'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people' Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

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(New Zealand, 1888 - France 1923) Pseudonym of Kathleen Beauchamp. A New Zealand storyteller who excelled in short novels and brief tales, becoming one of the most emblematic authors of the genre. Her works highlight the vital impulses of humans and their clash with social impositions, and the descriptions of the aristocratic world. She is considered an important figure in literary modernism.

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