Böcker av Katherine Mansfield

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.

This volume, the second of four, includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and warmth.

This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay".

The letters included in this volume cover the 18 months Mansfield spent in England, France and Switzerland, from May 1920 until the end of 1921. It is the period which saw some of her finest work.

Katherine Mansfield was a formidable critic: astute, witty and something more - she had, as Middleton Murry put it, an extraordinary style and critical verve, mastery and 'sureness of touch'. Careful annotation supplies essential information for following the evolution of her ideas - and her art - from 1907 until her death in 1923.

Katherine Mansfields noveller var ofta självbiografiska. Hennes mest kända novell, Dockskåpet, handlar om två systrar som till sina klasskamraters stora förtjusning får ett eftertraktat dockskåp. Systrarna inser snart att klasskamraternas avund kan utnyttjas på de mest raffinerade sätt, och en grym lek tar sin början…I originalöversättning av Märta LindqvistKatherine Mansfield föddes 1888 på Nya Zeeland men sökte sig till Europa där hon blev vän med bland andra Virginia Woolf och hennes litterära karriär tog fart. Katherine Mansfield kan sägas vara en föregångare till nobelpristagaren Alice Munro.