New Zealand Stories

by Mansfield, Katherine; O'Sullivan, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780195583649
• ISBN10: 0195583647
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand's most celebrated writer, and one of the key figures in the history of the short story in English. This is the first time the stories set in her own country have been brought together and published in the order in which

Author Biography

Vincent O'Sullivan is Professor of English at the University of Wellington. He is a critic, short story writer, novelist, and playwright.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
About Pat (1905)	15	(3)
In the Botanical Gardens (1907)	18	(2)
Leves Amores (1907)	20	(2)
A Birthday (1911)	22	(10)
Love-Lies-Bleeding (1911)	32	(7)
The Woman at the Store (1912)	39	(12)
How Pearl Button was Kidnapped (1912)	51	(4)
The Little Girl (1912)	55	(5)
Ole Underwood (1912)	60	(4)
Millie (1913)	64	(6)
Old Tar (1913)	70	(5)
The Wind Blows (1915)	75	(5)
Kezia and Tui (1916)	80	(5)
A Pic-nic (1917)	85	(9)
Prelude (1917)	94	(50)
The Stranger (1920)	144	(14)
An Ideal Family (1921)	158	(7)
Her First Ball (1921)	165	(8)
At the Bay (1921)	173	(40)
The Voyage (1921)	213	(10)
A Bad Idea (1921)	223	(3)
A Married Man's Story (1921)	226	(15)
The Garden Party (1921)	241	(17)
The Doll's House (1921)	258	(8)
Six Years After (1921)	266	(7)
Weak Heart (1921)	273	(4)
Daphne (1921)	277	(6)
Taking the Veil (1922)	283	(5)
The Canary (1922)	288	(4)
Notes	292