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And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genres all-time masters.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us fr...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

In The Garden Party fiebert Laura gerade der alljahrlichen Gartenparty ihrer Mutter entgegen, als sie vom Tod eines Mannes in der Nachbarschaft erfahrt. In Sixpence zerbricht Wirbelwind Dicky einen Teller. Wird seine Mutter verstandnisvoll reagieren oder wird sie Dicky auf Druck von Mrs Spears bestrafen?show moreISBN: 9783852720111Nr pagini: 69 pagesFormat: 146 x 211 x 7mm | 138gAnul aparitiei: 2008...

\\''The red and yellow tulips, heavy with flowers, seemed to lean upon the dusk. A grey cat, dragging its belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one, its shadow, trailed after.\\'' Powerful and evocative, each of Katherine Mansfield\\''s short stories is a masterclass in the form that made her name. Cut tragically short at the age of 34, hers was a life of passion that took her from New Zealand to Bohemian London and Paris. These various landscapes are reflected with verve in her writing, and...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stories brings together all of the stories that Mansfield had written up until her death in January of 1923.With an...