Katherine mansfield selected stories pdf
Katherine mansfield as a short story writer!
Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle
The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield () was one of the pioneers of the modernist short story in English, taking her cue from Russian writers like Anton Chekhov.
Below we’ve given a brief beginner’s guide to five of Mansfield’s very best short stories, with links to where each of them can be read online.
1. ‘The Garden Party’.
Katherine mansfield gutenbergThis story centres on the annual garden party held by the Sheridan family at their home, in New Zealand, Mansfield’s country of birth. One of the Sheridan children, Laura – a young woman on the cusp of adulthood – is looking forward to the party and is keen to become involved in the preparations.
However, while the Sheridans are preparing for their party, news arrives that a working-class man who lives in the poorer part of the village has been tragically killed when his horse reared up and threw him from his cart.
Laura, filled with sympathy for the dead man and his family, pleads with her mother and siblings to