The Garden Party

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Summary: The great observation around us!
Review: A great book of short stories by a great New Zealander author who is widely unknown. Her short stories will touch your life! Reading closely, I could find the nature of human being. I was almost overwhelmed. Her expressing skill is very outstanding. Specifically, I recommend "The Garden Party" and "The Doll's House" to you.

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Summary: please don't miss this - Mansfield is essential
Review: I came across K.M. as she liked to be refered, 60 years after her death. Very late,but better late then never. And especially for K.M. In a german Pension indrigued me first,a review told me, she could have made a lot of money, to publish it again, during the WWI.she declined. She had lost her Brother at the somme, but could not bring herself to more war mongering.
Then I read The Garden Party, and new nearly instandly what kind of person she might have been.
She disliked being priviliged, down the Street, kids her age where starving. The Garden Party gave her an opportunity to disclose Society as what it was. The gap between the Have and Have not.And this in the early 20th century in New Zealand.
And the Garden Party is on of the few stories at the backdrop of New Zealand scenery.
Her Stories make still a highly interesting read, very modern issues with an unbelievable talent for drama, as well as a very dry Sense of humor, like in 'A german Pension'
One or two stories of her are always my companion.

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Summary: The Garden Party and Other Stories
Review: I came across K.M. as she liked to be refered, 60 years after her death. Very late,but better late then never. And especially for K.M. In a german Pension indrigued me first,a review told me, she could have made a lot of money, to publish it again, during the WWI.she declined. She had lost her Brother at the somme, but could not bring herself to more war mongering.
Then I read The Garden Party, and new nearly instandly what kind of person she might have been.
She disliked being priviliged, down the Street, kids her age where starving. The Garden Party gave her an opportunity to disclose Society as what it was. The gap between the Have and Have not.And this in the early 20th century in New Zealand.
And the Garden Party is on of the few stories at the backdrop of New Zealand scenery.
Her Stories make still a highly interesting read, very modern issues with an unbelievable talent for drama, as well as a very dry Sense of humor, like in 'A german Pension'
One or two stories of her are always my companion.

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Summary: please don't miss this - Mansfield is essential
Review: If you've never read her short stories (she never wrote anything else), please do, and then read her journal. There is really something incredible that's underneath the surface of her short stories. If you just looked at the surface you might think they were cutesy or affected (little girls figure largely), but you would be completely missing the point. It's hard to explain what's so moving about them. When she describes some lazy afternoon, she just gets it so right that all the vast range of human experience seems to be contained in this afternoon (whereas in any Great American Novel-esque tomes you read only a fraction of that experience is ever expressed). But at the same time, it was just this cute little vignette that had very satisfying descriptions of flowers and little girls playing. The journal will help you understand her sadness as it's expressed in her work. You know when you are very, very upset, and you see something so beautiful or even funny, you're likely to become on the verge of tears? That's how Mansfield sounds in her stories - the stories are that beautiful thing that she sees.

She is most often compared to Chekhov, and it's not difficult to see why. I truly believe that Mansfield innovated and practically invented the English (language) short story.

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Summary: A Special Writer, A Great Observer
Review: Katherine Mansfield is one of those writers you come across that make you notice their writing. In "The Garden Party" she not only turns your attention to her style, but maintains it. Her writing is near perfect in form. While I find other writers who wrote during her time to be obstruse, she strikes me as clear and honest. She is not forceful, she is not powerful, but somethings in life require finesse. Mansfield takes finesse to the next level and turns it from an art into a science--though she would probably prefer her work described as an excercise in art. She is worth the read. Pity she didn't have enought time on this world to grace us with more of what I call real literature.

Rating:
Summary: A Special Writer, A Great Observer
Review: Katherine Mansfield is one of those writers you come across that make you notice their writing. In "The Garden Party" she not only turns your attention to her style, but maintains it. Her writing is near perfect in form. While I find other writers who wrote during her time to be obstruse, she strikes me as clear and honest. She is not forceful, she is not powerful, but somethings in life require finesse. Mansfield takes finesse to the next level and turns it from an art into a science--though she would probably prefer her work described as an excercise in art. She is worth the read. Pity she didn't have enought time on this world to grace us with more of what I call real literature.

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Summary: Garden Party
Review: Mansfield's innovative diction captivates readers and draws one into her own world. A world in which individuals are not bound by the common restraints of society.