Mansfield herself felt some of these stories fell short of her desired effect, though recent scholarship has revealed their greater complexity. While it contains some of Mansfield’s most sophisticated and well-loved stories, several of the stories in The Garden Party initially appeared in the Sphere, and thus were often dismissed as inferior. Early reviewers of the collection commented on the similarities it shared with her previous collection, Bliss and Other Stories however, while contemporary reviews were mixed, many emphasised the psychological power of her stories, praising how she was able to bring her characters to life in a way simple action could not.
The last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield’s place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation. It is a kind of playing.New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories together with creative work inspired by Mansfield 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea.
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'. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Lorna Sage. This Penguin Classic is performed by Bonnie Wright, best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films.
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