This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most iconic female writer ever to have been published, Katherine Mansfield. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: The Garden Party The Daughters of the Late Colonel Bliss Prelude At the bay Je ne parle pas francais How Pearl Button was Kidnapped
This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years.
Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war: - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield - May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen - His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.
Springtime refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth. Besides inspiring outdoor parties and lovers' promises, spring has also inspired writers. Check out these seven spring short stories by great authors. This book contains: - April Showers by Edith Wharton. - In the Spring by Guy de Maupassant. - Springtime a la Carte by O. Henry. - The Judgment by Franz Kafka. - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield. - The Veteran by Stephen Crane. - At Twilight by Susan Glaspell.
It is said that music begins where words end. But many writers have tried to merge these two worlds, either by portraying musicians as characters, or by writing about the effects of music on some plot. For music and literature lovers, critic August Nemo has selected seven short stories that blend these elements: - A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather - The Wind Blows by Katherine Mansfield - A Mother by James Joyce - The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft - The Music on the Hill by H.H. Munro (Saki) - A Lover of Music by Henry van Dyke - The Tragedy of a Comic Song by Leonard Merrick For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Becoming an adult is a difficult process, often painful and always unforgettable. Cultures and religions have always tried to demarcate this passage with a rite or public ceremony, but the internal process of each one is unique. Join us in these seven stories carefully selected by critic August Nemo: - Caline by Kate Chopin - My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne - I'm a Fool by Sherwood Anderson - Her First Ball by Katherine Mansfield - I Want to Know Why by Sherwood Anderson - So On He Fares by George Moore - Araby by james Joyce
The narration delves on the living and values of a large family in New Zealand. With trivial details of characters such as personality, gestures and attitudes, Mansfield has managed to delve into the psychology of characters and produce individuals that instantly capture attention. A must-read....
