The Doves Nest and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
The Doves Nest and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
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The Dove's Nest and Other Stories

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin Marie White, Naomi Barton, Amy Soakes, Kylie Elliott, Sarah Bacaller, Lyndal Curran Doolan, various narrators

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2024

Synopsis

The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry.CONTENTS:Introductory Note - The Doll’s House - Honeymoon - A Cup of Tea - Taking the Veil - The Fly - The CanaryThis collection also includes the following unfinished stories:A Married Man’s Story - The Doves’ Nest - Six Years After - Daphne - Father and the Girls - All Serene! - A Bad Idea - A Man and His Dog - Such a Sweet Old Lady - Honesty - Susannah - Second Violin - Mr. and Mrs. Williams - Weak Heart - Widowed“About the author” written and read by Susannah Fullerton.

About Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic, who is today considered one of the masters of the short story form.The narrators collaborating on this project are professional associates of Voices of Today, a spoken audio production house located in Perth, Western Australia. 

About Susannah Fullerton

Susannah Fullerton, OAM FRS, has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over twenty-five years. She is Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia, a founding member of the NSW Dickens Society, and of the Australian Bronte Association. Susannah is Sydney’s best-known lecturer on classic novels. She lectures regularly at the Art Gallery of NSW, at the State Library of NSW, at conferences, schools, and libraries around Australia and overseas.

About Erin Marie White

Erin Marie White is an Australian voice-over talent known for her youthful, warm, and expressive voice.

About Naomi Barton

Until recently, Naomi Barton traveled the world as an International School Drama teacher with her husband and two daughters. This enabled her to collect many different stories, accents, and adventures. As well as listening to audio, she loves to groom her Ragdoll cats, play with watercolour paints, and support her teenage daughters to be the most amazing young women they can be. Her interpretive skills combined with her passion for voice work is just part of what she brings to audiobook narration.

About Amy Soakes

Amy Soakes is an Australian voice actor with over twenty years of experience both in performing and production. She has produced over eight hundred video segments and voiced over a thousand television shows, corporate videos, training programs, and commercials. An expert in utilizing accents, she has been narrating audiobooks for more than four years.

About Sarah Bacaller

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet on July 05, 2019

Twenty one stories only six of which are finished. Her husband got lots of flak for publishing these stories after her death. (There's even a 1980s film starring John Gielgud lambasting him.) He published everything he could find, including her journal and youthful poems, and the royalties enabled h......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 24, 2022

Written in Katherine Mansfield’s mature years, this collection includes some of her most exquisite stories, quiet little gems. On the other hand, she was at the time also struggling with the TB that would claim her life prematurely. Reading the stories feels somewhat like looking over her shoulder a......more

Goodreads review by Eva on June 20, 2024

Dessa noveller (6 st 'färdiga' och 15 st 'fragment') gavs ut postumt, alltså efter Katherine Mansfields död. Hon började planera samlingen genast efter 'Garden-Party-samlingen'. Och titelnovellen skulle vara huvudnumret, antagligen ganska lång, för den är lång, men blev ändå aldrig färdig. Hon sluta......more

Goodreads review by Stohelit on May 06, 2022

These are mostly just fragments of stories, but even so one can see how wonderful her style was. She could bring you wholly into her world in 3 or 4 words.......more

Goodreads review by Melody on April 03, 2025

Perhaps it does not matter very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. I've never truly understood the power of short stories until I read this book. Mansfield's style of letting events describe themselves, of putting words to unnameable feelings, not by naming them bu......more

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