Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Mansfield contracted pulmonary tuberculosis whilst in France in 1918, which equated to a death sentence according to the medicine of the period. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Published in 1922, The Garden Party and Other Stories was Katherine Mansfield ’s third collection of short stories and the last to be published before her death in 1923. It is a kind of playing.' For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. '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.
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