Ten Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield is definitely my favourite writer of short stories. This collection is definitely a good taste of her brilliance and I enjoyed dipping in and out of it for a month or so. There is something so striking about Mansfield's way of writing. She is ruthless, quick, brilliant. No wonder......more

Very short stories, very original, almost science-fiction-like in that they're written about such a different time and place, where people ride trains, don't have a lot of clothes and food, and life is harder but simpler. I could only read about a third of them before I had to get back to life with......more

I think I was expecting a focus on the well-heeled middle classes (a la Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen) and while that is pretty much the environment for most of these stories, there is a surprising focus on the outcast and the marginalised, which tends to show polite society in a poor light. Ex......more

Nice stories, the only drawback to me is that 100 years old language and realities take quite an effort to digest sometimes, it's pretty different from the modern short stories.......more

Gender, class, love, dissatisfaction and most of all, loneliness are explored in this excellent collection of short stories.......more