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Book The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield  Volume IV  1920 1921

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume IV 1920 1921 written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 2. Includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and warmth, in a text which has been transcribed afresh from the original letters. Volume 3: Covers the eight months she spent in Italy and the South of France between the English summers of 1919 and 1920. It was a time of intense personal reassessment and distress. Mansfield's relationship with her husband John Middleton Murry was bitterly tested, and most of the letters in this present volume chart that rich and enduring partner'ship through its severest trial. This was a time, too, when Mansfield came to terms with the closing off of possibilities that her illness entailed. Without flamboyance or fuss, she felt it necessary to discard earlier loyalties and even friendships, as she sought for a spiritual standpoint that might turn her illness to less negative ends. As she put it, 'One must be ... continually giving & receiving, and shedding & renewing, & examining & trying to place'. Volume 4. The letters is this volume cover the eighteen months katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. There is a subtle but unmistakable change in her expectations, a new 'spiritual' insistence that is both elusive and resolute. From her Chekovian acceptance that 'they are cutting down the cherry trees' she derives a tough existential directness: 'the little boat enters the dark, fearful gulf...Nobody listens. The shadowy figure rows on. One ought to sit still and uncover one's eyes.' There is a determined push - not always successful - towards a necessary honesty, as much as to artistic achievement; while those qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished - the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness as much as sheer fun. Above all, perhaps, these letters comprise a record of very considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as they approach the final years of her life. The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived? Mansfield's biographers, like her friends, have wondered at the seemingly extraordinary decision to ditch conventional medicine, for the bizarre choice of Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau. These letters show the clarity of mind and will that led to that decision, the courage and distress in making it, and the gaiety even once it was made. She went against what her education, her husband, and most of her friends would regard as reasonable, as she opted to spend her last months with Russian émigrés and a strange assortment of Gurdjieff disciples (which she was not). But Fontainebleau give her the space and the incentive to shake free from the intellectualism that she thought the malaise of her time, as she worked at kitchen chores, took in the details of farm life, tried to learn Russian, and attempted to reach total honesty with herself. 'If I were allowed one simple cry to God,' she wrote in one of her last letters, that cry would be I want to be REAL.' -- Publisher.

Book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield  Volume III  1919 1920

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume III 1919 1920 written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 2. Includes her correspondence from early 1918 to the autumn of 1919. Her love for Middleton Murry, her response to the First World War, and her acceptance of the inevitable advance of tuberculosis, are handled with wit and warmth, in a text which has been transcribed afresh from the original letters. Volume 3: Covers the eight months she spent in Italy and the South of France between the English summers of 1919 and 1920. It was a time of intense personal reassessment and distress. Mansfield's relationship with her husband John Middleton Murry was bitterly tested, and most of the letters in this present volume chart that rich and enduring partner'ship through its severest trial. This was a time, too, when Mansfield came to terms with the closing off of possibilities that her illness entailed. Without flamboyance or fuss, she felt it necessary to discard earlier loyalties and even friendships, as she sought for a spiritual standpoint that might turn her illness to less negative ends. As she put it, 'One must be ... continually giving & receiving, and shedding & renewing, & examining & trying to place'. Volume 4. The letters is this volume cover the eighteen months katherine Mansfield spent in England, France, and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. There is a subtle but unmistakable change in her expectations, a new 'spiritual' insistence that is both elusive and resolute. From her Chekovian acceptance that 'they are cutting down the cherry trees' she derives a tough existential directness: 'the little boat enters the dark, fearful gulf...Nobody listens. The shadowy figure rows on. One ought to sit still and uncover one's eyes.' There is a determined push - not always successful - towards a necessary honesty, as much as to artistic achievement; while those qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished - the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness as much as sheer fun. Above all, perhaps, these letters comprise a record of very considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as they approach the final years of her life. The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived? Mansfield's biographers, like her friends, have wondered at the seemingly extraordinary decision to ditch conventional medicine, for the bizarre choice of Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau. These letters show the clarity of mind and will that led to that decision, the courage and distress in making it, and the gaiety even once it was made. She went against what her education, her husband, and most of her friends would regard as reasonable, as she opted to spend her last months with Russian émigrés and a strange assortment of Gurdjieff disciples (which she was not). But Fontainebleau give her the space and the incentive to shake free from the intellectualism that she thought the malaise of her time, as she worked at kitchen chores, took in the details of farm life, tried to learn Russian, and attempted to reach total honesty with herself. 'If I were allowed one simple cry to God,' she wrote in one of her last letters, that cry would be I want to be REAL.' -- Publisher.

Book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Vincent O'Sullivan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived? Mansfield's biographers, like her friends, have wondered at the seemingly extraordinary decision to ditch conventional medicine, for the bizarre choice of Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau. These letters show the clarity of mind and will that led to that decision, the courage and distress in making it, and the gaiety even once it was made. She went against what her education, her husband, and most of her friends would regard as reasonable, as she opted to spend her last months with Russian émigrés and a strange assortment of Gurdjieff disciples (which she was not). But Fontainebleau give her the space and the incentive to shake free from the intellectualism that she thought the malaise of her time, as she worked at kitchen chores, took in the details of farm life, tried to learn Russian, and attempted to reach total honesty with herself. 'If I were allowed one simple cry to God,' she wrote in one of her last letters, that cry would be I want to be REAL.'

Book The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks

Download or read book The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, Volumes One and Two publish Katherine Mansfield's private notebooks in their entirety for the first time. Passages include diary entries, letters, unfinished works, poems, published stories in embryo form, recipes and shopping lists. These annotated volumes offer an enhanced appreciation of Katherine Mansfield's work, and new insights into her life and relationships. Volume One covers Katherine Mansfield's childhood and adolescence, and Volume Two her adult life.

Book Katherine Mansfield in Her Letters and Works

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield in Her Letters and Works written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield  Short Stories  Poetry  Letters  Diary  Essays

Download or read book The Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield Short Stories Poetry Letters Diary Essays written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 2668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield is a collection of the renowned author's finest works, including her iconic short stories, poetry, letters, diary entries, and essays. Known for her modernist style and exploration of human emotions, Mansfield's writing reflects the complexities of early 20th-century literature. Her vivid storytelling and vibrant characters showcase her keen eye for detail and psychological depth, making this collection a must-read for literature enthusiasts. Mansfield's use of stream-of-consciousness and subtle symbolism adds layers of meaning to her work, inviting readers to delve into the inner thoughts and feelings of her characters. The inclusion of her personal diary and letters provides a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of this prolific writer. A groundbreaking figure in literary history, Mansfield's works continue to resonate with readers today, offering a timeless exploration of the human experience and the power of storytelling.

Book Katherine Mansfield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Mansfield
  • Publisher : Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780192820525
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the pioneers of the "stream of consciousness" style of short storywriting, Katherine Mansfield never fully realized her true greatness as a writer because of her untimely death at age thirty-four. But she did leave behind an impressive outpouring of evocative writing, including a wealth of fascinating letters to her friends in the Bloomsbury circle, her family, and countless other acquaintances. Drawn from the five volumes of her Collected Letters, this completely new selection of Katherine Mansfield's correspondence ranges from her first schoolgirl exchanges of 1903 to her last letters from the Gurdjieff Institute of Fontainebleau twenty years later. Brilliantly conveying her vivid and restless personality throughout a life that has become almost legendary for its vivacity and courage, this collection presents the voice of a new kind of twentieth-century woman moving erratically, but determinedly, toward self-definition. The volume includes many letters to John Middleton Murry--representing a moving record of what she referred to as "that utterly intense love"--and others to such friends as Lady Ottoline Morrell, Frieda Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell, S.S. Koteliansky, Anne Estelle Drey, and Dorothy Brett, as well as to her own family and chance acquaintances. Together, they chart her wide range of writing styles and reveal something of the vitality, warmth, and incisive wit that places Mansfield among the most poignant and entertaining of modern letter writers.

Book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book The Letters of Katherine Mansfield written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Katherine Mansfield  The Woman Behind The Books  Including Letters  Journals  Essays   Articles

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield The Woman Behind The Books Including Letters Journals Essays Articles written by Katherine Mansfield and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 1701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf wrote that she was jealous of Mansfield's story-telling skills, and probably the only person of whom the former was in jealous awe of. So who was Katherine Mansfield? Presented here is a fine collection of Mansfield's non-fictional works, the ones that got saved through her friend's and husband's (J. M. Murry's) efforts, to give an insight into the mind of the renowned modernist short stories writer. Content: Biography The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Ruth E. Mantz & J. Middleton Murry Letters and Journal The Letters of Katherine Mansfield Vol. 1 The Letters of Katherine Mansfield Vol. 2 Journal of Katherine Mansfield Essays and Book Reviews Novels and Novelists Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) was a famous editor and husband of Katherine Mansfield. He is responsible for collecting and editing all of Mansfield's manuscripts, in spite of the tumultuous relationship between the two, during and after Mansfield's lifetime.

Book Tenderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison MacLeod
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN : 1635576113
  • Pages : 641 pages

Download or read book Tenderness written by Alison MacLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful, moving, brilliant . . . an utterly captivating read, and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do." --Elizabeth Gilbert For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it will be censored. He publishes it privately, loses his copies to customs, and dies bereft. Booker Prize-longlisted author Alison MacLeod brilliantly recreates the novel's origins and boldly imagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer. In MacLeod's telling, Jackie-in her last days before becoming first lady-learns that publishers are trying to bring D.H. Lawrence's long-censored novel to American and British readers in its full form. The U.S. government has responded by targeting the postal service for distributing obscene material. Enjoying what anonymity she has left, determined to honor a novel she loves, Jackie attends the hearing incognito. But there she is quickly recognized, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes note of her interest and her outrage. Through the story of Lawrence's writing of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the historic obscenity trial that sought to suppress it in the United Kingdom, and the men and women who fought for its worldwide publication, Alison MacLeod captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century from war and censorship to sensuality and freedom. Exquisite, evocative, and grounded in history, Tenderness is a testament to the transformative power of fiction.

Book Katherine Mansfield

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield written by Gillian Boddy and published by Ringwood, Vic., Australia ; New York, NY, USA : Penguin. This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of notes, poems, letters and stories with a linking commentary serves as an introduction to Katherine Mansfield

Book Katherine Mansfield in Her Letters and Works

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield in Her Letters and Works written by New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garden Party

Download or read book The Garden Party written by Katherine Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prelude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Mansfield
  • Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
  • Release : 2017-01-04
  • ISBN : 9176393488
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Prelude written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. ‘Prelude’ (1922) is evidence of Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction genius, and it was the first short story that Virginia Wolf commissioned for her publishing house. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

Book Katherine Mansfield  Complete Works

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield Complete Works written by Katherine Mansfield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 2655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Katherine Mansfield's greatest works includes: Short Story Collections_x000D_ Bliss, and Other Stories_x000D_ The Garden Party, and Other Stories_x000D_ The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories_x000D_ Something Childish, and Other Stories_x000D_ In a German Pension, and Other Stories_x000D_ The Aloe_x000D_ Unfinished Stories_x000D_ Poems_x000D_ Poems: 1909- 1910 _x000D_ Poems: 1911-1913 _x000D_ Poems at the Villa Pauline: 1916 _x000D_ Poems: 1917-1919_x000D_ Child Verses: 1907_x000D_ Letters _x000D_ Journal_x000D_ Essays & Book Reviews_x000D_ Biography:_x000D_ The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Ruth E. Mantz & J. Middleton Murry_x000D_ Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Like Woolf, Mansfield was also interested in the feelings and thoughts of her characters rather than plot development and hence her short stories show the complexities of a character's interior life in all its various shades.