Mansfield: 337 books

A handy guide offering a practical plan for targeting skills any employee wants to develop and employers most desire. It's hard to tell if today's competitive job market is more unsettling for employees seeking job security or companies trying to retain loyal workers. The Value-Added Employee...

A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged moments when an individual is most revealing.

A radical lawyer with an unparalleled commitment to his clients, driven by anger at injustice and hypocrisy, intelligent, handsome and dynamic, Michael Mansfield has been tearing down the citadels of arcane legal conventions for more than forty years. Unafraid of rejection or failure, Michael has...

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine...

THE BEST SHORT STORY -  8 AUTHORS Jack London O. Henry Ambrose Bierce William James Lampton Katherine Mansfield James Fenimore Cooper Harriet Beecher Stowe Giovanni Boccaccio O. Henry Mark Twain Edited by Ahmet Ünal ÇAM The Story of Keesh by Jack London The Story of...

A primer on the bedrock principles of politics from “Harvard’s most controversial conservative professor” and the author of Democracy in America (Boston magazine). Behind the daily headlines on presidential races and local elections is the theory of the polity—or what the end of our...

Happy endings come in many guises. A collection of classic love stories that end on a high note: fun and spirited, with overtones that will linger awhile. The flight includes: The Singing Lesson, by Katherine Mansfield Akin to Love, by L.M. Montgomery Mr. Lismore and the Widow,...

Ten of the greatest authors of all time present their great works in the short story genre. A great compilation of tales for all tastes with the  great geniuses of literature in his most acclaimed works.  This selection specially chosen by the literary critic  August Nemo, contains the following...

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters...

Laura Sheridan find her perspective of life altered when, following her family’s garden party, she visits the Sheridan’s neighbours to give her condolences on the passing of Mr. Scott. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” captures the fleeting nature of youth and the unforseen turns...

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.

The narration delves on the living and values of a large family in New Zealand. With trivial details of characters such as personality gestures and attitudes Mansfield has managed to delve into the psychology of characters and produce individuals that instantly capture attention. A must-read.

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...