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The Garden Party and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

Start date: January 1, 2021

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Jul 16, 2018 Chrissie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, shorts, life-stages, philo-psychol, new-zealand, 2018-read

Here follows a free online link to the short story The Garden Party:

http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety....

Review:
In just a minimum of pages Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) captures remarkably well the personality of a naïve, privileged adolescent girl. She is sweet, has a conscience and does like looking pretty. What girl doesn’t? We meet Laura Sheridon, her mother, her father, two older sisters, an older brother and a younger one. Servants fill the background, each doing their appointed tasks ...more

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Jan 23, 2011 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: short-stories, library-loan, 3ms, new-zealand-authors, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2011

It's a pity KM didn't live in New Zealand her whole life but certainly this beautiful inspired her work in some way. ...more

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Jan 27, 2021 Brenda rated it it was ok

I debated between 2 and 3, and would have gone with 2.5.
I just didn't connect with these stories. I know they are only short stories, but I don't care for Mansfield's writing nor the stories, which felt both disjointed and juvenile. The stories were very random, starting and stopping in seemingly odd places. Many times leaving the reader wondering.... was that the end? Is that all? I'm not sure if I'll read anything else by her. ...more

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May 02, 2019 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: read-the-world, read-the-world-2018-2020, read-in-2019, short-stories, 1001-books, oceania

I read this book of short stories with high hopes that I would see some of the history and culture of New Zealand. The stories are sweet, simple, well-written and picturesque, but I didn't care about the characters and didn't feel I learned much either. ...more

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May 01, 2021 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001

I was really quite surprised how quickly I was able to read these stories.

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Jan 16, 2010 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: new-zealand-authors, audio-books, classics, read-2009

Series of three classic short stories celebrating the riotous, witty, cocktail-swilling party people of the 1920s, dubbed by Evelyn Waugh the 'Bright Young Things'.

By Katherine Mansfield. A lavish party at the luxurious Sheridan family home is jeopardised when a local workman meets with a tragic death.

Read by Romola Garai.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton. ...more

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