

In a German Pension
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Red Door Consulting
Published: 04/13/2013
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Narrator: Cathy Dobson
Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Red Door Consulting
Published: 04/13/2013
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories
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.
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
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
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