The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
Penguin Classics

Author: Katherine Mansfield, Lorna Sage

Narrator: Bonnie Wright

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2019

Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Bonnie Wright, best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Lorna Sage .

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'

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 s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all] on June 03, 2025

I often think of the best short stories as being perfectly fine tuned machines. Like in old cartoons where the watchmaker opens the back of some golden timepiece that counts the heartbeats of life with impeccable precision to reveal the intricate innards of gears that must be adjusted to nearly impo......more

Goodreads review by Vit on March 23, 2024

The book is a collection of fine expressionistic short stories… At the Bay… A summer day spent by the sea… Adults and children… Talks, games and thoughts… It was all very well to say it was the common lot of women to bear children. It wasn’t true. She, for one, could prove that wrong. She was broken,......more

Goodreads review by Violet on October 08, 2016

Piazza del Duomo is my least favourite place in Florence. I always hurry through it. Probably San Marco (except at four in the morning) and St Peters are my least favourite places in, respectively, Venice and Rome so I guess I just don’t respond very well to the grandiose. I prefer what’s smaller, m......more

Goodreads review by Georgia on July 12, 2023

If there was just one sentence I could save from a fire, it would be this one from The Garden Party: "And the perfect afternoon slowly ripened, slowly faded, slowly its petals closed." Here is life in all its order. Rhythmic in sound and symbol, hushed as a prayer. Read it again out loud. Though "lo......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on November 13, 2024

The Garden Party is a short story by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in 1922 in the “Westminster Gazette” in three parts. Katherine Mansfield is known mostly for her short stories, many of which are quite astute. This one in particular poignantly reveals the vast s......more

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