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Book The Garden Party  and Other Stories

Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garden Party

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Mansfield
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2016-05-29
  • ISBN : 1101973110
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Garden Party written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection An afternoon at the Sheridan’s garden party will be perfect. Darling Laura is doing a marvelous job negotiating with the band, workmen, cook, and florist who appears with an unexpected delivery, all without her mother’s help. But, distressing news reaches the house just before lunch. A young man from one of the sordid little cottages down the lane was killed in an accident, and suddenly Laura can’t imagine proceeding with the party. From Katherine Mansfield, one of the most talented and pioneering masters of the short story in English, of whom Virginia Woolf once wrote: “I was jealous of her writing—the only writing I have ever been jealous of,” “The Garden Party” is an exquisite paragon of the form. An ebook short.

Book Dying for a Garden Party

Download or read book Dying for a Garden Party written by VL McBeath and published by Valyn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to a garden party. The perfect opportunity for Eliza to snoop around her childhood home ... until she comes across more than she bargained for... August 1901: Oak House was once Eliza’s home. It was a place of memories, some good … some not so good. Revisiting the place had never occurred to her … until the invitation to the party arrived. And then she couldn’t keep away. Being told to stay in the garden wasn’t going to stop Eliza and Connie from finding their way indoors. But when the master of the house is found with a bullet wound in his head, they have questions to answer… The victim's family have their own ideas about the murder. But who had the most to gain from Mr Hartley’s death? In a world where secrets and lies are the norm, someone is playing games. Unfortunately for them, they haven’t bargained on Eliza’s past. Can she use her childhood knowledge of the village to identify the killer before they strike again? Set in a quintessential, English village, Dying for a Garden Party is the fourth standalone story in the Eliza Thomson Investigates series. If you like Miss Marple-style, historical murder mysteries, and amateur sleuths with attitude, you’ll love this step-back-in-time cozy series. Get your copy today! Books in the Eliza Thomson Investigates series: •A Deadly Tonic •Murder in Moreton •Death of an Honourable Gent •Dying for a Garden Party •A Scottish Fling •A Christmas Murder •The Palace Murder NB. This series is written in UK English

Book Dying for a Garden Party  Eliza Thomson Investigates

Download or read book Dying for a Garden Party Eliza Thomson Investigates written by Vl McBeath and published by Eliza Thomson Investigates. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth standalone story in the Eliza Thomson Investigates series. If you like Miss Marple-style murder mysteries, and historical heroines with attitude, you'll love this step-back-in-time cozy series.

Book The Garden Party and Other Stories

Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories written by Lorna Sage and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. 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'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'

Book The Garden Party and Collected Short Stories

Download or read book The Garden Party and Collected Short Stories written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary modernism, 'The Garden Party' is now considered one of the key texts of that movement. This volume, which also includes a wide selection of Katherine Mansfield's other short stories, is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover one of the early twentieth century's finest writers.

Book Dying  A Memoir

Download or read book Dying A Memoir written by Cory Taylor and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor’s retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience—the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance—of knowing she will soon die. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account of what dying teaches: Taylor describes the tangle of her feelings, remembers the lives and deaths of her parents, and examines why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her death. Taylor’s last words offer a vocabulary for readers to speak about the most difficult thing any of us will face. And while Dying: A Memoir is a deeply affecting meditation on death, it is also a funny and wise tribute to life.

Book Dying  Death  and Grief

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. A. Simpson
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1468434683
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Dying Death and Grief written by M. A. Simpson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Categories Used in Classification.- Annotated List of Books.- Supplementary List of Books.- Author Index.- Journals.- Films.- Film Distributors and Libraries.- Audio-Visual Materials Audiotapes and Audiocassettes.- Videotapes and Videocassettes.- Teaching Materials, Kits, etc.- European Literature French.- Scandinavian.- German.- Dutch.- Key Journal References.- Films and Audio-Visual Media Available in Great Britain Films.- AV Materials.- Stop Press Additions.

Book The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story

Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story written by Andrew Maunder and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.

Book Modern Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Jarman
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 1452915024
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Modern Nature written by Derek Jarman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1994.

Book Party Girls Die in Pearls

Download or read book Party Girls Die in Pearls written by Plum Sykes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rollicking murder mystery. . . . a wildly entertaining romp. . . . Laugh? I died.”—Vogue The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University. It’s 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm’s, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term anticipating nothing more sinister than days spent poring over history books in gilded libraries—and, if she’s lucky, an invitation to a ball. But when she discovers a glamorous classmate on a chaise longue with her throat cut, Ursula is catapulted into a murder investigation. Determined to bag her first scoop for the famous student newspaper Cherwell, Ursula enlists the help of trend-setting American exchange student Nancy Feingold to unravel the case. While navigating a whirl of black-tie parties and secret dining societies, the girls discover a surfeit of suspects. From broken-hearted boyfriends to snobby Sloane Rangers, lovelorn librarians to dishy dons, none can be presumed innocent—and Ursula’s investigations mean that she may be next on the murderer’s list. Clueless meets Agatha Christie in this wickedly funny tale of high society and low morals, the first book in Plum Sykes’ irresistible new series.

Book The Garden Party

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Mansfield
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-04-29
  • ISBN : 1443435031
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book The Garden Party written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Sheridan find her perspective of life altered when, following her family’s garden party, she visits the Sheridan’s neighbours to give her condolences on the passing of Mr. Scott. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” captures the fleeting nature of youth and the unforseen turns that life can take. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Book The Garden Party  and Other Stories  Annotated

Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories Annotated written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Sheridans are a wealthy family who live happily in their mansion and keep their children away from the working-class neighborhood located too close to home, just down the hill on which their fabulous home reigns. The morning when Laura, the oldest daughter of the Sheridan couple, is preparing their first garden party, she thinks she is lucky because the day has dawned splendid and the band will be able to play without problems outside the canopy. The busy cook, her half-dressed and unbrushed sisters, her mother ordering lilacs by surprise, the voices of the workers installing the awning in the garden... Everything seems perfect. Until one of the maids informs the Sheridans that one of the workers has died nearby in an unfortunate accident.Laura believes that they should suspend the party, out of respect for the widow and the five children that the deceased has left and who live just a short walk from the Sheridan mansion. But her little sisters laugh at its occurrence and her mother does not understand what such nonsense comes from.Katherine Mansfield (Wellington, New Zealand, October 14, 1888 - Fontainebleau, France, January 9, 1923).

Book The Tea Party in the Woods

Download or read book The Tea Party in the Woods written by Akiko Miyakoshi and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kikko sets out after her father with a forgotten pie for Grandma. When she arrives at a strange house in the wintry woods, a peek in the window reveals that the footprints Kikko had been following did not belong to her father at all, but to a bear in a long coat and hat! Alice in Wonderland meets Little Red Riding Hood in this charmed tale.

Book The Garden Party

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Mansfield
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-01-19
  • ISBN : 3734720915
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Garden Party written by Katherine Mansfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden Party and Other Stories is a 1922 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield that covers topics such as Life and Death, Marriage, distorted reality, regret, disappointment, duty and Gender.

Book Murder in Moreton

    Book Details:
  • Author : VL McBeath
  • Publisher : Valyn Ltd
  • Release : 2020-10-28
  • ISBN : 1999942655
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Murder in Moreton written by VL McBeath and published by Valyn Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder, family feuds, and a missing son. Eliza Thomson Investigates… An unremarkable passing, or so it would seem, but what of the missing medicine bottles? And the stain on the bedcover The sudden death of one of its residents disturbs the peace in the sleepy English village of Moreton-on-Thames. Crotchety old woman and head of the family business, Mrs Milwood isn’t afraid to use the money and power acquired from her late husband. Even against her own family. Always determined to get her own way, she’ll use any means possible to control those around her. Until she pushes someone too far. As a murder investigation begins, amateur sleuth Eliza Thomson is determined to help out the village police. Until Inspector Adams arrives from New Scotland Yard… This is the second standalone story in the Eliza Thomson Investigates series. If you like Miss Marple-style murder mysteries and women sleuths with attitude, you’ll love this historical series. Books in the Eliza Thomson Investigates series: • A Deadly Tonic • Murder in Moreton • Death of an Honourable Gent • Dying for a Garden Party • A Scottish Fling • A Christmas Murder • The Palace Murder NB. This series is written in UK English

Book Modernist Literature  A Guide for the Perplexed

Download or read book Modernist Literature A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Childs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements that considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature.