In a German Pension, Katherine Mansfield
In a German Pension, Katherine Mansfield
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In a German Pension

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/13/2013

Synopsis

First published in 1911, Katherine Mansfield's collection "In a German Pension" was inspired by her extended stay in a spa town in Bavaria in 1909, during which she suffered a miscarriage. The collection brought her instant fame and popularity as a short story writer, particularly as her amusing - though less than favourable - caricatures of the Germans were very popular at that time: - Germans at Meat -The Baron - The Sister of the Baroness - Frau Fischer - Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding - The Modern Soul - At Lehmann’s - The Luft Bad - A Birthday - The Child-who-was-tired - The Advanced Lady - The Swing of the Pendulum - A Blaze

About Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and settled in Europe to finish her education. She published her first short fiction in The New Age, then in Rhythm, whose editor, the British writer and critic John Middleton Murry, she soon married. Her writing contributed to the development of the stream of consciousness technique and to the modernist use of multiple viewpoints, and her style has had a powerful influence on subsequent writers in the same genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse

Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever . There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised ... And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experience of life, the fears and delights, the......more

Goodreads review by Kinga

Katherine Mansfield would’ve matured to be an amazing writer if she hadn’t died at the age of 34 of tuberculosis – which quite possibly was another of the knock-on effects of the gonorrhoea she contracted from her Polish lover – Florian Sobieniowski. Was it worth it, Katherine - [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Paula

É claro que tudo isto é difícil de entender para as inglesas, quando vocês andam constantemente a mostrar as pernas nos campos de cricket e a criar cães no jardim das traseiras. (...) Parece que estávamos realmente numa péssima situação. Será que o espírito romântico só abria as suas asas rosadas so......more

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