"The Garden Party and Other Stories" is a 1922 collection of short
stories by Katherine Mansfield. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923) was
a modernist writer from New Zealand who produced poetry and short
stories under the pseudonym Katherine Mansfield. She left New Zealand
when she was 19 and relocated to England, where she became friends with
a number of notable literary figures including D. H. Lawrence, Ottoline
Morrell, and Virginia Woolf. Mansfield died of pulmonary tuberculosis in
France at the age of 34. The stories include: "At the Bay", "The
Garden-Party", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel", "Mr. and Mrs. Dove",
"The Young Girl", "Life of Ma Parker", "Marriage À la Mode", "The
Voyage", "Miss Brill", "Her First Ball", "The Singing Lesson", "The
Stranger", "Bank Holiday", "An Ideal Family", and "The Lady's Maid".
Other notable works by this author include: "The Aloe" (1930), and "The
Doves' Nest and Other Stories" (1923). Read & Co. Classics is proudly
republishing this collection of classic short stories now in a new
edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the
author.