Prelude & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world. Katherine Mansfield was part of a 'new dawn' in English literature with T. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. A number of her works, including 'Miss Brill', 'Prelude', 'The Garden Party', 'The Doll's House', and later works such as 'The Fly', are frequently collected in short story anthologies.

Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Contents: The Doll's House A Cup of Tea Taking the Veil The Fly The Canary 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. Mansfield's family memoirs were collected in Bliss and secured her reputation as a writer.

Like the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, Mansfield depicted trivial events and subtle changes in human behavior. Her short stories are also notable for their use of stream of consciousness. Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middle-class characters. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield is New Zealand's most famous writer.

Prelude & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield