Bliss and Other Stories

by Katherine Mansfield

Overview

Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield.

"Prelude" (1918)

"Je ne parle pas français" (1917)

"Bliss" (1918)

"The Wind Blows" (1920)

"Psychology" (1920)

"Pictures" (1917)

"The Man Without a Temperament" (1920)

"Mr Reginald Peacock's Day" (1920)

"Sun and Moon" (1920)

"Feuille d'Album" (1917)

"A Dill Pickle" (1917)

"The Little Governess" (1915)

"Revelations" (1920)

"The Escape" (1920)

About the Author

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.

Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. She began school in Karori with her sisters, before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship.

Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality, Christianity, and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group. Mansfield was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1917, and she died in France aged 34. (wikipedia.org)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798897730803
Publisher:	Bibliotech Press
Publication date:	03/05/2025
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 - 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain when she was 19 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. Among her most well-known stories are "The Garden Party", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Fly." During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the age of 34.