Stories

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 are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through.
And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as "Prelude, " "At the Bay" "Bliss, " "The Man Without a Temperament" and "The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.