Katherine Mansfield: 86 books

Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie KerrOh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if...

Katherine Mansfield was a prominent short story writer in the early 20th century.  This edition of Something Childish and Other Stories includes a table of contents.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   An afternoon at the Sheridan’s garden party will be perfect. Darling Laura is doing a marvelous job negotiating with the band, workmen, cook, and florist who appears with an unexpected delivery, all without her mother’s help. But, distressing...

Mrs. Parker has had a hard life, even the neighbours say so. As a girl in Stratford-on-Avon, she had never heard of Shakespeare. In her first position in London, she wasn’t allowed out of the cellar except to pray with the family. After two years of being run off her feet in a doctor’s house,...

The streets are bustling with people—musicians, children, psychics, and salesmen—because a bank holiday means that everyone is out of the house, enjoying the day. In “Bank Holiday” author Katherine Mansfield examines the sights, sounds, and feelings of people out on a holiday in the summertime. HarperPerennial...

In this short story by Katherine Mansfield, an unidentified narrator is left in charge of Mrs. Raddick’s children while their mother keeps her friend, Mrs. MacEwen, company at the casino. At twelve, Hennie is delighted with everything the world has to offer—an English bulldog, a cup of chocolate,...

Womens Short Stories Volume 4. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we...

Womens Short Stories Volume 2. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we...

"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother‘s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from...

Die neuseeländische Autorin Katherine Mansfield hielt sich Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts einige Zeit in Bad Wörishofen auf und lernte dort typische deutsche Kurgäste kennen. Ihre Eindrücke und Beobachtungen verarbeitete sie unterhaltsam und amüsant in der Geschichte: „In a German Pension“.(Text in englischer Sprache)

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr. Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen!...

Katherine Mansfield was a prominent short story writer in the early 20th century.  This edition of In a German Pension includes a table of contents.

"The other ladies consider her `very, very fast. Her lack of vanity, her slang, the way she treated men as though she was one of them, and the fact that she didn‘t care twopence about her house and called the servant Gladys `Glad-eyes‘, was disgraceful." Like her friend Virginia Woolf‘s `Mrs....

Katherine Mansfield est un écrivain et une poétesse britannique d'origine néo-zélandaise. Puisant son inspiration tout autant de ses expériences familiales que de ses nombreux voyages, elle contribua au renouvellement de la nouvelle de modernisme avec ses récits basés sur l’observation et...